From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:42:05 -0700
> In case of sysfs failure, don't let device be brought up. > It can be cleared by unregister_netdevice so module can be unloaded > normally. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm not so sure about this, a hot plug event could clear that bit too. The problem I think is that here we've structured things such that we can't handle the error properly and pass it back to the register_netdevice() caller because we do the sysfs registry call in the rtnl_unlock() todo list execution. Next, even if you prevent the device from being brought up, people can still assign IP addresses and do other stuff to the device so it still sort of behaves as if it is there. It would therefore be the best if we can do this stuff inside of register_netdevice(), then handle and propagate any errors correctly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
