Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751880AbWLNAhR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:37:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751877AbWLNAhR (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:37:17 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37140 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751876AbWLNAhP (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:37:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:37:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20061213.163714.35660848.davem@davemloft.net> To: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk Cc: 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() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20061213201213.GK4587@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20061212162435.GW28443@stusta.de> <20061212.171756.85408589.davem@davemloft.net> <20061213201213.GK4587@ftp.linux.org.uk> 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: 551 Lines: 15 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:12:14 +0000 > There might be practical considerations along the lines of "we want > lookups for loopback to be fast"... We have that taken care of, it's called "&loopback_dev". None of the performance-caring paths do dev_get_by_name("lo") - 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/