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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:42:44 +0200
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> We could make inet_init() a subsystem init but I vaguely recall
> that we were doing that at one point and it broke things for
> some reason.
> 
> Perhaps fs_initcall() would work better.  Or if that causes
> problems we could create a net_initcall() that sits between
> fs_initcall() and device_initcall().
> 
> Or any other ideas?

Just tried fs_initcall() and net_initcall(). Both seem to have some
side effects:
Symptom is that console output sometimes hangs for several seconds at:
"NET: Registered protocol family 2" while all cpus are in cpu_idle().

Heiko