Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init

From: Marek Lindner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:37:06 +0800

On Monday, December 24, 2012 22:22:44 Pau Koning wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sven Eckelmann <[email-masked]> 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

It was discussed and a decision was made. Please read all mails in this thread 
before making noise.

Thanks,
Marek