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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 13:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:11:49 -0400

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:06:07PM -0700, Mark Rustad wrote:
>> This change eliminates an initialization-order hazard most
>> recently seen when netprio_cgroup is built into the kernel.
>> 
>> With thanks to Eric Dumazet for catching a bug.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com>
 ...
> I think dave was going to take John Fastabends patch from earlier today, but
> this works just as well.  Long term I'm going to look into delaying
> initzlization for cgroups, as it creates a strange initialization state when you
> have a module_init routine registered.

Neil, any particular preference between John's and Mark's version
of the fix?