On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:52:19 +0100 (BST)
Chris Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Look at the old code again. This is not a new bug. The old code fails
> > registration, does a printk, and then sets dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED.
>
> OK, fair enough. But anyway, is it valid to leave reg_state as NETREG_REGISTERED when the
> registration has failed?
Yes. the device is still half alive in that case. It is accessible via normal networking
calls, and can be unregistered. It just would not show up properly in sysfs.
Not sure how it would be possible (except maybe out of memory) to construct a case
where registration fails. Maybe races with name changes.
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