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authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>2007-05-06 17:51:04 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 15:13:00 -0400
commitf34d9d2dcb7f17b64124841345b23adc0843e7a5 (patch)
tree0bb200273bcc37da8dd32945ae25c213c9efe2c2 /include/linux/kernel.h
parentb16895b63c504698b0c3ab26ca3c41a4fa162a42 (diff)
uml: network interface hotplug error handling
This fixes a number of problems associated with network interface hotplug. The userspace initialization function can fail in some cases, but the failure was never passed back to eth_configure, which proceeded with the configuration. This results in a zombie device that is present, but can't work. This is fixed by allowing the initialization routines to return an error, which is checked, and the configuration aborted on failure. eth_configure failed to check for many failures. Even when it did check, it didn't undo whatever initializations has already happened, so a present, but partially initialized and non-working device could result. It now checks everything that can fail, and bails out, undoing whatever had been done. The return value of eth_configure was always ignored, so it is now just void. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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