Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751840AbWLNAXY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:23:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751843AbWLNAXY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:23:24 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55327 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751840AbWLNAXX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:23:23 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:23:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20061213.162322.28789366.davem@davemloft.net> To: shemminger@osdl.org Cc: bunk@stusta.de, tgraf@suug.ch, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, 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() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20061213154125.5e118ba5@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20061213231848.GY8693@postel.suug.ch> <20061213233128.GD3629@stusta.de> <20061213154125.5e118ba5@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 13 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:41:25 -0800 > But what if other network device is not a module. We want loopback > to be first. so it needs to be before other device_initcall's That's not happening today, so it's "broken" today, which suggests that the order in all likelyhood no longer matters. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/