Commit aeed9e82 authored Jul 30, 2007 by Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller Jul 31, 2007

[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 <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 7f988eab

drivers/net/loopback.c

+6 −1

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		@@ -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);