Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "netpoll: Fix extra refcount release in netpoll_cleanup()"

From: Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 07:13:45 -0700

On 04/05/16 13:58, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> This reverts commit 543e3a8da5a4c453e992d5351ef405d5e32f27d7.
>
> Direct callers of __netpoll_setup() depend on it to set np->dev,
> so we can't simply move that assignment up to netpoll_stup().
>
> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email-masked]>

Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <[email-masked]>

Thanks!

Bart.