From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: bunk@stusta.de, tgraf@suug.ch, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:23:22 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061213.162322.28789366.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061213154125.5e118ba5@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:41:25 -0800
> But what if other network device is not a module. We want loopback
> to be first. so it needs to be before other device_initcall's
That's not happening today, so it's "broken" today, which suggests
that the order in all likelyhood no longer matters.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-14 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 16:24 [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init() Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 1:17 ` David Miller
2006-12-13 13:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 13:54 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 19:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-13 19:36 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 20:12 ` Al Viro
2006-12-13 20:49 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 23:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-13 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 23:18 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-13 23:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-13 23:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-14 0:21 ` David Miller
2006-12-14 0:23 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-12-14 0:18 ` David Miller
2006-12-14 0:37 ` David Miller
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