Subject: Re: Strange uses of netif_start_queue

From: Ralf Baechle <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:27:59 +0100

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:35:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> Something I noticed doing the tty work. the 6pack driver calls
> netif_start_queue() before it calls register_netdev. I'm curious if this
> is allowed ?

As part of adding support for extended 6pack which is required by the
PR 430 I've recently fixed that.  It was looking suspect enough that I
fixed it though I don't see any way this could do harm.

  Ralf