From: Hariprasad Shenai <haripra...@chelsio.com> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:30:35 +0530
> If adapter is flashed with incorrect firmware, probe can fail. > If probe fails, continue in debug mode, so one can also use the debug > interface to update the firmware via ethtool. > > Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <haripra...@chelsio.com> If the init fails, there are all of these software datastructure that have not been allocated at all which ->open() blindly assumes it can dereference. Sorry, you're going to have to do a lot more work than this to allow this situation to proceed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
