Re: [PATCH] Prevent "eth0: driver changed get_stats after register" lying

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:46:22 +0100
Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We set "dev->last_stats" after we have registered the class device.
> During class device registration, we trigger the hotplug scripts,
> which can in turn bring up the interface.  This in turn checks to
> see if "dev->last_stats == dev->get_stats", and, since we haven't
> set dev->last_stats yet, we complain.
> 
> Here is a patch against 2.6.0-test8 which moves the initialisation
> of last_stats such that we avoid the race.

Looks ok, thanks Russell.