netdev - Re: [patch 03/11] fix for crash in adummy

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Message-Id: <20070205.180447.38712391.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:04:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dwalker@...sta.com, chas@....nrl.navy.mil,
	mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [patch 03/11] fix for crash in adummy_init()

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:30:56 -0800

> From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
> 
> This was reported by Ingo Molnar here,
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/18/119
> 
> The problem is that adummy_init() depends on atm_init() , but adummy_init()
> is called first.
> 
> So I put atm_init() into subsys_initcall which seems appropriate, and it
> will still get module_init() if it becomes a module.
> 
> Interesting to note that you could crash your system here if you just load
> the modules in the wrong order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Cc: chas williams <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied, and I'll queue this one up for -stable too.

Thanks.
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