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

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Message-Id: <20061213.162322.28789366.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:23:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...l.org
Cc:	bunk@...sta.de, tgraf@...g.ch, 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: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:41:25 -0800

> But what if other network device is not a module. We want loopback
> to be first. so it needs to be before other device_initcall's

That's not happening today, so it's "broken" today, which suggests
that the order in all likelyhood no longer matters.
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