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Subject: Re: [PATCH net: fix /proc/net/dev regression
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:59:06 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 08:36 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> 
> This appears to fix the problem.  I do find it mildly irritating
> that the ordering is now random in /proc/net/dev, but I guess
> that is the price of progress.
> 

Well, as new devices are inserted at front of each hash list, this was
already the case before Mihai work.

By the way, ifconfig does a sort before output.

> Tested-by:  Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

Thanks !