From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: DJBARROW@de.ibm.com
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in /net/core/dev.c
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:51:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15142.18587.652613.378275@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1256A69.005BF601.00@d12mta09.de.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <C1256A69.005BF601.00@d12mta09.de.ibm.com>
DJBARROW@de.ibm.com writes:
> This is a cure the syntom not the problem, build order shouldn't mess up
> something this simple.
The refcounting issue you've described is a bug, and so is
initializing a network device before net_dev_init() has been invoked.
These two things are equally buggy.
Build order does mess up things this simple, look at the comments at
the top of drivers/scsi/Makefile if you don't believe me :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-12 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-12 16:43 bug in /net/core/dev.c DJBARROW
2001-06-12 16:51 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-06-12 17:02 ` Keith Owens
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-13 10:03 DJBARROW
2001-06-13 10:18 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 18:38 DJBARROW
2001-06-12 18:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 17:05 Ulrich.Weigand
2001-06-12 17:20 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-12 14:17 DJBARROW
2001-06-12 14:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 15:34 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-12 15:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 16:11 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-11 18:32 DJBARROW
2001-06-12 3:18 ` David S. Miller
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