I'm trying to fix a race in register_netdevice(). The problem is that there's a uevent to userspace before the netdevice is ready for use. The problem is described here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15606 I have sent few different ways to fix this, but none of them have been really usable. Now I came up with a way which changes the driver core to make it possible send the uevent in a separate call. This is a clean and safe way to fix the race. Downside is that two new functions are added to the driver core interface. Please comment. --- Kalle Valo (2): driver core: add device_add_noevent() and device_uevent() net: postpone net device uevent to fix a race drivers/base/core.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/device.h | 2 + net/core/dev.c | 3 ++ net/core/net-sysfs.c | 2 + 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
