From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:45:48 +0200 Message-ID: <200604191245.48458.borntrae@de.ibm.com> References: <20060407081533.GC11353@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20060408100213.GA9412@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20060408031235.5d1989df.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Heiko Carstens , shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fpavlic@de.ibm.com, davem@sunset.davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:62779 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbWDSKpw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 06:45:52 -0400 To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060408031235.5d1989df.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org As spinlock debugging still does not work with the qeth driver I want t= o pick=20 up the discussion. On Saturday 08 April 2006 12:12, Andrew Morton wrote: > Heiko Carstens wrote: [...] > > -vmlinux-main :=3D $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y) > > +vmlinux-main :=3D $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(net-y) $(drivers-y) > > What about putting this patch into mm and find out? > > I have a bad feeling that one day we're going to come unstuck with th= is > practice. Is there anything which dictates that the linker has to la= y > sections out in .o-file-order? > > Perhaps net initcalls should be using something higher priority than > device_initcall(). I agree that the initcall order offers a lot of room for improvement (l= ike=20 dependencies). Is anybody aware of any work into this direction? --=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen / Best Regards Christian Borntraeger Linux Software Engineer zSeries Linux & Virtualization