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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.
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