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Commit: aeed9e82cd258b9699eaa6568efefba9cc6d5f01
Parent: 7f988eab57bd22884bbc452fb04c6c18738666b3
Author: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Mon Jul 30 16:37:19 2007 -0700
Committer: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Tue Jul 31 02:28:14 2007 -0700
[NET] loopback: Panic if registration fails
Because IPv4 and IPv6 both depend on the presence of the loopback
device to function, failure in registration the loopback device should
be fatal.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/net/loopback.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index 6ba6ed2..5106c23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -229,7 +229,12 @@ struct net_device loopback_dev = {
/* Setup and register the loopback device. */
static int __init loopback_init(void)
{
- return register_netdev(&loopback_dev);
+ int err = register_netdev(&loopback_dev);
+
+ if (err)
+ panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);
+
+ return err;
};
module_init(loopback_init);
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