From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262109AbUFJRlY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:41:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262114AbUFJRlY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:41:24 -0400 Received: from web20209.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.226.64]:59917 "HELO web20209.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262109AbUFJRlW (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:41:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20040610174121.9243.qmail@web20209.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Raghava Vatsavayi Subject: register_netdev usage To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Please clarify any issues with “register_netdev” usage. Like I have seen strange behaviour with 2.6.5-7 kernel on PPC64 platform in my network driver: When “register_netdev” is not called at the end of my probe function “s2io_init_nic” but some where in middle of probe function, then s2io_open gets called even though I was just doing insmod. But this issue goes away when I push register_netdev to the end of probe function. So why is it like this, is this expected behaviour??? Please mail me at rajuraghava@yahoo.com as I did’t subscribe. Regards Raghava. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/