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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:49:33 +0100 From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> To: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, bunk@...sta.de, jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init() * Al Viro <viro@....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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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