netdev - Re: Please pull 'fixes-davem' branch of wireless-2.6

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Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:38:14 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please pull 'fixes-davem' branch of wireless-2.6

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 01:13:14 John W. Linville wrote:
> "ssb: Fix initcall ordering" changes a subsys_initcall to an
> fs_initcall.  This seems like a bit of a hack, but it fixes a real
> problem and I'm not sure what cleaner solution is either reasonable
> or available.  The comment in the patch explains the reasoning for this
> somewhat unique situation.

Well, ssb is not the only subsystem with this special requirement.
Grep for fs_initcall. In my opinion we need another initcall to fix
this issue. I think we need a post_subsys_initcall().
But that really is another issue that we can't decide in netdev.
For now, this fix is harmless and fixes the bug.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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