netdev - Re: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order

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Message-Id: <20070927.120345.112249695.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	den@...nvz.org
Cc:	dev@...nvz.org, devel@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order

From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400

> Subject: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order
> From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
> To: davem@...emloft.net
> Cc: dev@...nvz.org, devel@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
> 	containers@...ts.osdl.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400
> Sender:  <den@...ru>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
> 
> Loopback device is special. It should be initialized at the very
> beginning.  Initialization order has been changed by
> Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> and this change is non-obvious
> and important enough to add proper comment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>

Applied, but I had to fix the coding style of your comment,
please do it like this in the future:

/* Loopback is special. It should be initialized before any other network
 * device and network subsystem.
 */

Thanks.
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