Re: Strange uses of netif_start_queue

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

From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:35:14 +0100

> Something I noticed doing the tty work. the 6pack driver calls
> netif_start_queue() before it calls register_netdev. I'm curious if this
> is allowed ?

It's definitely a bug, and when register_netdev() happens it will
just overwrite that change of state.

Since the queue is not initialized yet, this could also cause
a crash or hang. :-)