From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 17:46:30 +0300 > 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. This doesn't work. The sysfs file will still be there before the uevent, so any process can go in there, and see the inconsistent state. -- 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
