From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 12:01:07 -0700

> Something like this would handle errors better, but introduce possible
> problems for drivers that call register_netdevice with irq's disabled.
> There was some comment about racing with linkwatch, but don't see how
> that could happen during creation.  
> 
> For 2.6.18?

I've been thinking about this a bit more.

How can anyone be using this with IRQ's disabled if we have
an ASSERT_RTNL() there?
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