If the network device is being opened right after it has been registered
via function register_netdev(), the device state is not yet consistent in
the context of function ndo_open(). This patch cares about having the
initialization done right, before the networking device is registered.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Shvetsov <andrey.shvet...@k2l.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gr...@microchip.com>
---
drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c
b/drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c
index dd36872..761c4cb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/most/aim-network/networking.c
@@ -356,10 +356,13 @@ static int aim_probe_channel(struct most_interface
*iface, int channel_idx,
}
nd->dev = dev;
+ ch->ch_id = channel_idx;
+ ch->linked = true;
dev->ml_priv = nd;
if (register_netdev(dev)) {
pr_err("registering net device failed\n");
+ ch->linked = false;
free_netdev(dev);
return -EINVAL;
}
--
1.7.9.5
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