linux-stable/arch/um
Jeff Dike f34d9d2dcb uml: network interface hotplug error handling
This fixes a number of problems associated with network interface hotplug.

The userspace initialization function can fail in some cases, but the
failure was never passed back to eth_configure, which proceeded with the
configuration.  This results in a zombie device that is present, but can't
work.  This is fixed by allowing the initialization routines to return an
error, which is checked, and the configuration aborted on failure.

eth_configure failed to check for many failures.  Even when it did check,
it didn't undo whatever initializations has already happened, so a present,
but partially initialized and non-working device could result.  It now
checks everything that can fail, and bails out, undoing whatever had been
done.

The return value of eth_configure was always ignored, so it is now just
void.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
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drivers uml: network interface hotplug error handling 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
include uml: network interface hotplug error handling 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
kernel uml: host_info tidying 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
os-Linux uml: network interface hotplug error handling 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
scripts [PATCH] (uml) sparse flags for userland glue are missing $(CF) 2007-03-14 15:27:48 -07:00
sys-i386 uml: mark tt-mode code for future removal 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
sys-ia64
sys-ppc Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
sys-x86_64 uml: formatting fixes 2007-05-07 12:13:00 -07:00
config.release
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Add an option for the VIA C7 which sets appropriate L1 cache 2007-05-02 19:27:05 +02:00
Kconfig [PATCH] stacktrace doesn't work on uml 2007-03-14 15:27:49 -07:00
Kconfig.char [PATCH] uml: enable RAW 2007-03-01 14:53:38 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] uml: remove syscall debugging 2006-07-10 13:24:24 -07:00
Kconfig.i386 [PATCH] fix indentation-related breakage in Kconfig.i386 2007-01-30 08:39:21 -08:00
Kconfig.net [PATCH] uml: Rename Kconfig files to be like the other arches 2005-09-05 00:06:19 -07:00
Kconfig.scsi [PATCH] uml: Rename Kconfig files to be like the other arches 2005-09-05 00:06:19 -07:00
Kconfig.x86_64 [PATCH] um: fix undefined reference to hweight32 2006-03-26 08:57:09 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
Makefile-i386 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00
Makefile-ia64
Makefile-os-Linux
Makefile-ppc
Makefile-skas [PATCH] uml makefiles sanitized 2005-09-29 08:46:26 -07:00
Makefile-tt
Makefile-x86_64 [PATCH] uml: fix compilation options for USER_OBJS 2006-10-30 12:08:41 -08:00