* Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-12-13 20:12 > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:17:56PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > I'm not sure whether that is important any longer. It probably isn't, > > but we should verify it before applying such a patch. > > There might be practical considerations along the lines of "we want > lookups for loopback to be fast"...
What is this discussion actually about? Since we started registering devices directly hooked into the init process before device_initcall() the order is random. Even the bonding device is registered before the loopback. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
