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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: DJBARROW@de.ibm.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in /net/core/dev.c
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:46:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15142.14648.665490.589503@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9802.992360059@ocs4.ocs-net>
In-Reply-To: <15142.11764.844524.381111@pizda.ninka.net> <9802.992360059@ocs4.ocs-net>


Keith Owens writes:
 > David, how do any network drivers that need net_dev_init() work when
 > all $(DRIVERS) come before $(NETWORKS)?  This is a generic problem, not
 > s390 specific.

Then I don't understand why none of the statically built in drivers in
any of my kernels (on any platform I use, sparc64, i386, etc.) make
that "early initialization of device XXX deferred" message get spit
out.

Actually after some studying I do understand :-) net_dev_init() is not
invoked via net/* initialization.  My bad.  It gets invoked from
drivers/block/genhd.c:device_init()  so that is the ordering
dependency and why things work for non-s390 network devices now.

So, if the s390 folks move their stuff into the appropriate spot it
will work.  In fact, I personally like to see the s390 net devices
under drivers/net/s390 anyways.  They'll get free maintenance from
myself and Jeff Garzik in this way as I rarely look int
drivers/${PLATFORM} type directories unless I'm doing a tree-wide
grep. :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-12 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12 14:17 bug in /net/core/dev.c DJBARROW
2001-06-12 14:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 15:34   ` Keith Owens
2001-06-12 15:46   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-06-12 16:11     ` Keith Owens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-13 10:03 DJBARROW
2001-06-13 10:18 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 18:38 DJBARROW
2001-06-12 18:44 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 17:05 Ulrich.Weigand
2001-06-12 17:20 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-12 16:43 DJBARROW
2001-06-12 16:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-12 17:02 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-11 18:32 DJBARROW
2001-06-12  3:18 ` David S. Miller

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