Subject: Re: Strange uses of netif_start_queue

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:33:41 +0200

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 ?

All netif_start_queue does is clear_bit(...), so it is a NOP at that
point. I guess it could be removed.