linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module

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Message-Id: <20061213.161816.85689247.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:18:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	bunk@...sta.de, shemminger@...l.org, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	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()

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:18:48 +0100

> Not really, the device management inits as subsys, the ip layer hooks
> into fs_initcall() which comes right after. The loopback was actually
> registered after the protocol so far. I think Adrian's patch is fine
> if the module_init() is changed to device_initcall().

module_init == device_initcall when the object is being compiled
statically into the kernel, which is always the case for the loopback
driver

I mentioned this in my original reply to Adrian, just in case anyone
happened to actually read that :-)
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