On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Calvin Owens <calvinow...@fb.com> wrote:
> Commit 7332a13b038be05c ("vxlan: defer vxlan init as late as possible")
> changed vxlan to use late_initcall(), because vxlan relies on ipv6 being
> loaded when a new device is opened.
>
> This causes netconsole to panic at boot when configured via the kernel
> cmdline on an IXGBE NIC, because ixgbe_open() assumes that vxlan has
> already been initialized:

BTW, it is not fair to blame my commit above, since it was merged long before
ixgbe or any hardware driver has vxlan support. Not a big deal, just FYI. ;)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to