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| -rw-r--r-- | 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 6ba6ed2b480..5106c2328d1 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); |