From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:41:19 -0700
This patch changes network devices to run hotplug out of the
kobject/class_device infrastructure rather than calling it from the
network core. The code gets simpler and there is only one place for
Greg to fix when he changes the API ;-)
I'll apply this patch, looks fine.
Paranoid about some driver doing something like:
rtnl_lock(); register_netdevice(); unregister_netdevice(); rtnl_unlock() BOOM
These sorts of turds exist at least in two places:
1) drivers/net/wan/comx.c
2) drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
But it is pretty clear that these two drivers have been
tried by nobody in recent years. They both call into
{un,}register_netdevice without the RTNL semaphore held.
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