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| author | Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> | 2007-09-27 12:04:19 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:56 -0700 |
| commit | 070ac3a2651e3c1c4d277c5f1981517427c386a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 364fa74ca42b34e61d3d219e79212083f1f59702 /drivers/net/loopback.c | |
| parent | f4618d39a34dab316090263b42cd8799f31ce277 (diff) | |
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[NET]: Proper comment for loopback initialization order.
Loopback device is special. It should be initialized at the very
beginning. Initialization order has been changed by
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> and this change is non-obvious
and important enough to add proper comment.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/loopback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/loopback.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c index b6d4ae3ad506..2617320efa95 100644 --- a/drivers/net/loopback.c +++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c @@ -293,4 +293,7 @@ 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); |
