Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:12:17 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init() |
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 03:01:43PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:49:33 +0100 > Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote: > > > * Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> 2006-12-13 20:12 > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:17:56PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > > > I'm not sure whether that is important any longer. It probably isn't, > > > > but we should verify it before applying such a patch. > > > > > > There might be practical considerations along the lines of "we want > > > lookups for loopback to be fast"... > > > > What is this discussion actually about? Since we started registering > > devices directly hooked into the init process before device_initcall() > > the order is random. Even the bonding device is registered before the > > loopback. > > Loopback should be there before protocols are started. It makes sense > to have a standard startup order.
This actually becomes easier after my patch:
Now that it's untangled from net_olddevs_init(), you can simply change the module_init(loopback_init) to a different initcall level.
cu Adrian
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