From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964841AbWDHMP3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:15:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751369AbWDHMP3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:15:29 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:15630 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751363AbWDHMP2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:15:28 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:14:54 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: "David S. Miller" Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, shemminger@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fpavlic@de.ibm.com, davem@sunset.davemloft.net Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock Message-ID: <20060408121454.GA16761@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20060407081533.GC11353@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20060407074627.2f525b2e@localhost.localdomain> <20060408100213.GA9412@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20060408.031404.111884281.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060408.031404.111884281.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 03:14:04AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > 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(). fs_initcall() seems to be used mainly for "init after subsystem" stuff. Within fs/ only pipe.c uses fs_initcall(). If we are going to overload the usage of fs_initcall() even more then we should maybe try to rename it? Sam