From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Initialising net/ipv4/ before net/ipv6/ breaks IPv6 autoconf with nfsroot....
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:01:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077303696.427.570.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040219222253.082458cf.davem@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:22 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> If at some point we create some initialization dependency between ipv4
> and ipv6 (f.e. ipv6 init needs some ipv4 table setup) we will need to
> tread carefully to keep this from breaking.
True. For 2.6 in fact we can do it this way...
===== net/ipv4/ipconfig.c 1.35 vs edited =====
--- 1.35/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Wed Oct 8 01:37:44 2003
+++ edited/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Fri Feb 20 19:00:23 2004
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
return 0;
}
-module_init(ip_auto_config);
+late_initcall(ip_auto_config);
/*
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-20 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-19 14:38 Initialising net/ipv4/ before net/ipv6/ breaks IPv6 autoconf with nfsroot David Woodhouse
2004-02-20 6:22 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-20 19:01 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-02-20 19:07 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-20 19:02 ` David Woodhouse
2004-02-20 19:08 ` David S. Miller
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