Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:02:13 +0200

> Ok, so the problem seems to be that inet_init gets called after qeth_init.
> Looking at the top level Makefile this seems to be true for all network
> drivers in drivers/net/ and drivers/s390/net/ since we have
> 
> vmlinux-main := $(core-y) $(libs-y) $(drivers-y) $(net-y)
> 
> The patch below works for me... I guess there must be a better way to make
> sure that any networking driver's initcall is made before inet_init?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

We could make inet_init() a subsystem init but I vaguely recall
that we were doing that at one point and it broke things for
some reason.

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().

Or any other ideas?
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