Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:01:43 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       bunk@stusta.de, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:49:33 +0100
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:

> * Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> 2006-12-13 20:12
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:17:56PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > I'm not sure whether that is important any longer.  It probably isn't,
> > > but we should verify it before applying such a patch.
> > 
> > There might be practical considerations along the lines of "we want
> > lookups for loopback to be fast"...
> 
> What is this discussion actually about? Since we started registering
> devices directly hooked into the init process before device_initcall()
> the order is random. Even the bonding device is registered before the
> loopback.
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Loopback should be there before protocols are started. It makes sense
to have a standard startup order.
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