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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:44:35 +0200 From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...osys.com> To: "Denis V. Lunev" <dlunev@...il.com> CC: dlezcano@...ibm.com, davem@...emloft.net, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device Denis V. Lunev wrote: > dlezcano@...ibm.com wrote: >> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com> >> >> Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a >> simple network device, and it removes the special case >> single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully >> making maintenance easier. >> >> Applies against net-2.6.24 >> >> Tested on i386, x86_64 >> Compiled on ia64, sparc > > I think that a small note, that initialization order is changed will be > good to record. After this, loopback MUST be allocated before any other > networking subsystem initialization. And this is an important change. > > Regards, > Den > Thanks Denis to point that. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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