Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec
From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-03 01:04:39
From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-03 01:04:39
Santiago Leon wrote:
From: Michael Ellerman <redacted> After a kexec the veth driver will fail when trying to register with the Hypervisor because the previous kernel has not unregistered. So if the registration fails, we unregister and then try again. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <redacted> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <redacted> Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <redacted> --- drivers/net/ibmveth.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Looks good to me, and has been around for a couple of months.
This seems completely bonkers to me: are resources available? if no free resources try again It makes resource checking pointless. Jeff