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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@meiosys.com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <dlunev@gmail.com>
Cc: dlezcano@fr.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	shemminger@linux-foundation.org, containers@lists.osdl.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:44:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CF0AF3.9080105@meiosys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CEFF83.3040003@gmail.com>

Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote:
>> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
>>
>> Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
>> simple network device, and it removes the special case
>> single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
>> making maintenance easier.
>>
>> Applies against net-2.6.24
>>
>> Tested on i386, x86_64
>> Compiled on ia64, sparc
> 
> I think that a small note, that initialization order is changed will be
> good to record. After this, loopback MUST be allocated before any other
> networking subsystem initialization. And this is an important change.
> 
> Regards,
>     Den
> 

Thanks Denis to point that.

	-- Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-24 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-24 15:36 [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device dlezcano
2007-08-24 15:55 ` [Devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2007-08-24 16:44   ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
     [not found]   ` <46CEFF83.3040003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-24 17:43     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 21:24       ` Denis V. Lunev
2007-08-27 12:12       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-27 12:12         ` Eric W. Biederman

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