Vijaymahantesh Kalakoti (vijayck@sasken.com) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to know the loopback initialization.
>
> I can see the loopback_init() function defined in the
> drivers/net/loopback.c file.
>
> & the loopback device defined in the drivers/net/Space.c file
> struct net_device loopback_dev =
> {"lo", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, NEXT_DEV, loopback_init};
>
> But I couldn't find where the initialization function loopback_init()
> called during the boot up process.
>
> Is it called at the time of protocol initialization???
http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/net/loopback.c?v=2.6.5#L180
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