From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:15:40 +1030
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On Friday 30 January 2009 02:02:16 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The host really shouldn't be notifying us of config changes
> before the device status is VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER or
> VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.
> 
> However, if we do happen to be interrupted while we're not
> attached to a driver, we really shouldn't oops.

Thanks, applied!

Rusty.
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