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author | Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | 2007-05-06 17:51:04 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-07 15:13:00 -0400 |
commit | f34d9d2dcb7f17b64124841345b23adc0843e7a5 (patch) | |
tree | 0bb200273bcc37da8dd32945ae25c213c9efe2c2 /include/linux/kernel.h | |
parent | b16895b63c504698b0c3ab26ca3c41a4fa162a42 (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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