Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc* QinQ vlan trunking regression

[Patrick McHardy]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:45:33 +0100
>
> > This is a bit tricky to fix since we actually need some valid
> > ops before invoking ->init(). One way would be to move the compat
> > ops initialization to a seperate function and have VLAN use it to
> > switch its ops.
>
> Mind if I push this into net-2.6?
>
> vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes.
>
> As analyzed by Patrick McHardy, vlan needs to reset it's
> netdev_ops pointer in it's ->init() function but this
> leaves the compat method pointers stale.
>
> Add a netdev_resync_ops() and call it from the vlan code.

This looks fine, thanks. Even if it doesn't fix this particular
report, I think its appropriate for net-2.6.
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