Re: How to register non-modular net drivers?

From: Andrew Morton (morton@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 09:42:40 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> How should a non-modularised network device driver register itself?

Forget this. Stephen Frost's ten-minutes-later patch to net/core/dev.c
is the fix.

> Also, is register_netdev() buggy? It calls rtnl_lock() but has two
> error return paths which fail to call rtnl_unlock().

Don't forget this.

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