[Devel] Re: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Thu Sep 27 12:03:45 PDT 2007


From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den at openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400

> Subject: [PATCH] proper comment for loopback initialization order
> From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den at openvz.org>
> To: davem at davemloft.net
> Cc: dev at openvz.org, devel at openvz.org, netdev at vger.kernel.org,
> 	containers at lists.osdl.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:25:27 +0400
> Sender:  <den at sw.ru>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
> 
> 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>

Applied, but I had to fix the coding style of your comment,
please do it like this in the future:

/* Loopback is special. It should be initialized before any other network
 * device and network subsystem.
 */

Thanks.




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