[Devel] [PATCH 1/1] Dynamically allocate the loopback device

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:55:47 +0400
"Denis V. Lunev" <dlunev at gmail.com> wrote:

> dlezcano at fr.ibm.com wrote:
> > From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
> > simple network device, and it removes the special case
> > single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
> > making maintenance easier.
> > 
> > Applies against net-2.6.24
> > 
> > Tested on i386, x86_64
> > Compiled on ia64, sparc
> 
> I think that a small note, that initialization order is changed will be
> good to record. After this, loopback MUST be allocated before any other
> networking subsystem initialization. And this is an important change.
> 
> Regards,
>     Den

Yes, this code would break when other drivers are directly linked
in.