From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070927.120345.112249695.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070927122527.GA10972@iris.sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070927122527.GA10972@iris.sw.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: den@openvz.org Cc: dev@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org From: "Denis V. Lunev" Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400 > Subject: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order > From: "Denis V. Lunev" > To: davem@davemloft.net > Cc: dev@openvz.org, devel@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, > containers@lists.osdl.org > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400 > Sender: > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) > > Loopback device is special. It should be initialized at the very > beginning. Initialization order has been changed by > Eric W. Biederman and this change is non-obvious > and important enough to add proper comment. > > Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Applied, but I had to fix the coding style of your comment, please do it like this in the future: /* Loopback is special. It should be initialized before any other network * device and network subsystem. */ Thanks.