On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:07:25 +0800 Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave: > > This series of patches adds support to let netdev registration > and change name events to fail. Failures of the former kind > prevents the device from registered while the latter attempts > to roll back the change (which unfortunately can also fail). > > If the failure occurs while a netdev is being registered, > then the registration as a whole will fail. If it occurs > when a protocol is being registered, then that protocol > will fail to register instead. > > Having this allows us to flag allocations failures in a > meaningful way rather than letting the next action that > requires what is allocated to flag the failure. > > In particular, this allows the reporting of failures to > allocate the IPv4/IPv6 device objects. > > Cheers, Thanks for looking at this, are there bugs this fixes so it should go to stable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
