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Re: alloc_etherdev breaks ether=

To: andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Morton)
Subject: Re: alloc_etherdev breaks ether=
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:54:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Cox), jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jeff Garzik), davem@xxxxxxxxxx (David S. Miller), netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Linus Torvalds)
In-reply-to: <3B3CA2D4.608135EF@xxxxxxxxxx> from "Andrew Morton" at Jun 30, 2001 01:46:28 AM
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Which basically takes us back to the thing I did in
> December: allocate and reserve the device name at the
> start of probe, and publish it (ie: make it eligible for
> open) at the end of probe.

Which was the right thing to have done anyway

> I can put that stuff back together over the weekend - I think
> it'll be quite straightforward.

Ok


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