Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:14:04 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:02:13 +0200
> Ok, so the problem seems to be that inet_init gets called after qeth_init. > Looking at the top level Makefile this seems to be true for all network > drivers in drivers/net/ and drivers/s390/net/ since we have > > vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y) > > The patch below works for me... I guess there must be a better way to make > sure that any networking driver's initcall is made before inet_init? > > Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
We could make inet_init() a subsystem init but I vaguely recall that we were doing that at one point and it broke things for some reason.
Perhaps fs_initcall() would work better. Or if that causes problems we could create a net_initcall() that sits between fs_initcall() and device_initcall().
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