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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo•de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists•open-mesh.org
Cc: Pau Koning <paukoning@gmail•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation•org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:37:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201212250337.48595.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiGF98L_Ca20Eb+qVuX1126rWoeqQzOASshB7c2LQ-Fi7DiXA@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday, December 24, 2012 23:36:03 Pau Koning wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo•de> 
wrote:
> > On Monday, December 24, 2012 22:22:44 Pau Koning wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation•org> 
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.
> 
> What decision? I only see something about Patch 6 and Patch 7: Antonio
> Quartulli doesn't want rtnetlink support in batman-adv. I don't see
> any other statement about the rest of the patchset.

Quoting Antonio:

>>>
Anyway, I discussed about this together with the others and it seems
that a proper solution now is to wait before merging this patchset and fix the
current sysfs/rtnl_lock problem first. What do you think?

Adding a new API without fixing the current one doesn't sound like a good 
move.
<<<

What isn't clear ?

Cheers,
Marek

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-24 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-24  0:02 [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 2/7] batman-adv: Move deinitialization of soft-interface to destructor Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 3/7] batman-adv: Don't always delete softif when last slave was removed Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 4/7] batman-adv: Remove slave interfaces before removing master interface Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 5/7] batman-adv: Allow to postpone softif unregistration Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 6/7] batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletion Sven Eckelmann
     [not found]   ` <20121201131108.GL24115@ritirata.org>
     [not found]     ` <20121201131108.GL24115-E/2OGukznS5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-01 13:16       ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-01 13:28         ` Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Antonio Quartulli
     [not found]           ` <20121201132802.GM24115-E/2OGukznS5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-01 13:39             ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-01 14:54               ` Re: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-24  0:02 ` [PATCH 7/7] batman-adv: Allow to modify slaves of soft-interfaces through rntl_link Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init David Miller
     [not found]   ` <20121124.155902.1261596975089040930.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-24 21:23     ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-24 14:22 ` Pau Koning
     [not found]   ` <CANiGF9_=svx+W4Rhx8BL1NBv0H1aULeh71sX9YkMeR66OmmimA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-24 14:37     ` Marek Lindner
     [not found]       ` <201212242237.07208.lindner_marek-LWAfsSFWpa4@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-24 15:36         ` Pau Koning
2012-12-24 19:37           ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2012-12-24 23:18             ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] " Pau Koning
     [not found]               ` <CANiGF9_4QP0ts2kV9Bruk_8L7h1870LMcrRhtsYu35q=COF0hQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-25  8:19                 ` Marek Lindner

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