[Devel] [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order
Denis V. Lunev
den at openvz.org
Thu Sep 27 05:25:27 PDT 2007
Loopback device is special. It should be initialized at the very
beginning. Initialization order has been changed by
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> and this change is non-obvious
and important enough to add proper comment.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den at openvz.org>
--- ./drivers/net/loopback.c.loopcomment 2007-08-26 19:30:38.000000000 +0400
+++ ./drivers/net/loopback.c 2007-09-27 16:08:06.000000000 +0400
@@ -293,4 +293,6 @@ static int __init loopback_init(void)
return register_pernet_device(&loopback_net_ops);
}
+/* Loopback is special. It should be initialized before any other network
+ device and network subsystem */
fs_initcall(loopback_init);
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