Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:43:52 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: RTNL assert |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > The rtnetlink lock needs to be taken around > > register_netdevice(). There should be a function > > which does these three common steps, but there isn't. > > I thought the only difference between register_netdev() and > register_netdevice() was that one took the rtnl_lock and the other didn't?
And, register_netdev allocates a name for you if necessary...
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