Anupam Kapoor (anupam.kapoor@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:32:22 +0200, Christophe Lucas
> <c.lucas@ifrance.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> i think vijay is looking for info on the 2.4 kernel (but i might be wrong here).
http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/net/loopback.c?v=2.4.26#L106
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