Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:45:19 +0200
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] network hotplug via class_device/kobject
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David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> :
[rtnl_lock() and register_netdevice()]
>    Paranoid about some driver doing something like:
>    	rtnl_lock(); register_netdevice(); unregister_netdevice(); rtnl_unlock() BOOM
> 
> These sorts of turds exist at least in two places:
> 
> 1) drivers/net/wan/comx.c
> 2) drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c
> 
> But it is pretty clear that these two drivers have been
> tried by nobody in recent years.  They both call into

It's pretty clear but it's false :o)

> {un,}register_netdevice without the RTNL semaphore held.

There is a maintainer for 2):
GENERIC HDLC DRIVER, N2 AND C101 DRIVERS
P:      Krzysztof Halasa
M:      khc@pm.waw.pl
W:      http://hq.pm.waw.pl/hdlc/
S:      Maintained

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Ueimor
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