netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/6] [NET] loopback: Panic if registration fails

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Message-Id: <20070730.163819.45740505.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] [NET] loopback: Panic if registration fails

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:09:33 +0800

> [NET] loopback: Panic if registration fails
> 
> Because IPv4 and IPv6 both depend on the presence of the loopback device
> to function, failure in registration the loopback device should be fatal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied.

It might be nice to tightly integrate the loopback driver into
net/core/dev.c because that is what is happening anyways and it would
allow us to cons the thing up by hand and deal with these dependencies
more reliably.
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