Hi, On Friday 07 November 2008, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > Changes since 20081106: The following patch fixes the panic on loopback device registration (patch is an interdiff between old and new version of "net: Guaranetee the proper ordering of the loopback device." fix from Eric). [ I'm sure this will get fixed in -net tree (if not fixed already) but at the moment it is needed for linux-next. ] --- net/core/dev.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) Index: b/net/core/dev.c =================================================================== --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4913,21 +4913,6 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void) if (register_pernet_subsys(&netdev_net_ops)) goto out; - /* The loopback device is special if any other network devices - * is present in a network namespace the loopback device must - * be present. Since we now dynamically allocate and free the - * loopback device ensure this invariant is maintained by - * keeping the loopback device as the first device on the - * list of network devices. Ensuring the loopback devices - * is the first device that appears and the last network device - * that disappears. - */ - if (register_pernet_device(&loopback_net_ops)) - goto out; - - if (register_pernet_device(&default_device_ops)) - goto out; - /* * Initialise the packet receive queues. */ @@ -4944,10 +4929,25 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void) queue->backlog.weight = weight_p; } - netdev_dma_register(); - dev_boot_phase = 0; + /* The loopback device is special if any other network devices + * is present in a network namespace the loopback device must + * be present. Since we now dynamically allocate and free the + * loopback device ensure this invariant is maintained by + * keeping the loopback device as the first device on the + * list of network devices. Ensuring the loopback devices + * is the first device that appears and the last network device + * that disappears. + */ + if (register_pernet_device(&loopback_net_ops)) + goto out; + + if (register_pernet_device(&default_device_ops)) + goto out; + + netdev_dma_register(); + open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action); open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
