From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
bunk@stusta.de, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061213150143.2672e0b1@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061213204933.GW8693@postel.suug.ch>
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.
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Loopback should be there before protocols are started. It makes sense
to have a standard startup order.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-13 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 16:24 Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 1:17 ` David Miller
2006-12-13 13:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 13:54 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 19:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-13 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 20:12 ` Al Viro
2006-12-13 20:49 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 23:01 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-12-13 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 23:18 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 23:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 23:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-14 0:21 ` David Miller
2006-12-14 0:23 ` David Miller
2006-12-14 0:18 ` David Miller
2006-12-14 0:37 ` David Miller
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