[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Don't call dev_mc_add() before device is registered
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at pobox.com
Wed Aug 27 19:56:28 EST 2008
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> We must not call dev_mc_add() from within our HW configure which happens
> before we initialize and register the netdev. Do it in open() instead.
>
> Thanks to Sebastian Siewior for tracking it down.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
>
> This fixes an uninitialized spinlock warning (and possibly more).
>
> Please apply.
applied
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