netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dev: Add API to check net

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20200727.103233.2024296985848607297.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:32:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     andrew@...n.ch
Cc:     ilial@...eaurora.org, kuba@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, ap420073@...il.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        maximmi@...lanox.com, ilia.lin@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dev: Add API to check net_dev readiness

From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:45:28 +0200

> I also have to wonder why a network device driver is being probed the
> subsys_initcall.

This makes me wonder how this interface could even be useful.  The
only way to fix the problem is to change when the device is probed,
which would mean changing which initcall it uses.  So at run time,
this information can't do much.