From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@meiosys•com>
To: "Denis V. Lunev" <dlunev@gmail•com>
Cc: dlezcano@fr•ibm.com, davem@davemloft•net,
shemminger@linux-foundation•org, containers@lists•osdl.org,
netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:44:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CF0AF3.9080105@meiosys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CEFF83.3040003@gmail.com>
Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> dlezcano@fr•ibm.com wrote:
>> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr•ibm.com>
>>
>> Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
>> simple network device, and it removes the special case
>> single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
>> making maintenance easier.
>>
>> Applies against net-2.6.24
>>
>> Tested on i386, x86_64
>> Compiled on ia64, sparc
>
> I think that a small note, that initialization order is changed will be
> good to record. After this, loopback MUST be allocated before any other
> networking subsystem initialization. And this is an important change.
>
> Regards,
> Den
>
Thanks Denis to point that.
-- Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-24 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-24 15:36 [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device dlezcano
2007-08-24 15:55 ` [Devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2007-08-24 16:44 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
[not found] ` <46CEFF83.3040003-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-08-24 17:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-08-24 21:24 ` Denis V. Lunev
2007-08-27 12:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
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