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Staging: batman-adv: Create batman_if only on register event
authorSven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:18:08 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:46:22 +0000 (16:46 -0700)
commit6e5cab8eac427fd754cc70aba0906228277cdea2
tree26d213b9503713a1501a093bfb227f96067dffd3
parent37b419b202eaebc97c05e598895ea16cbde112a7
Staging: batman-adv: Create batman_if only on register event

commit 1189f130f89b73eecb6117c0fc5e90abbcb7faa0 upstream.

We try to get all events for all net_devices to be able to add special
sysfs folders for the batman-adv configuration. This also includes such
events like NETDEV_POST_INIT which has no valid kobject according to
v2.6.32-rc3-13-g7ffbe3f. This would create an oops in that situation.

It is enough to create the batman_if only on NETDEV_REGISTER events
because we will also receive those events for devices which already
existed when we registered the notifier call.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c