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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Oops at "NET: Registering protocol family 23" at boot with
 2.6.0t9-bk
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:51:37 -0800
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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> If it's just ptype_all that it needs, why don't we just initialize
>  that one list head at compile time?

Pessimism, basically.  I'm sure we could locally fix IRDA, but what
other bugs has that initcall change introduced?