On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sven Eckelmann [off-list ref] wrote:

The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the
init/constructor function and not from the outside after the register_netdevice
was done to avoid race conditions.

This patchset seems to be similar. Shouldn't it have been part of
3.8-rc1 or got rejected? Neither of it happened in the last month