Re: netlink init order

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 25 May 2003 15:12:28 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 25 May 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
>
> BTW, is there any reason why init_netlink_dev() is not a module_init()?

Probably not. I don't know if the thing even makes sense without a user
space, which definitely implies that it shouldn't be a "core" initcall.

Even more true as it seems to depend on other core subsystems already
being initialized.

Davem? Who uses this thing?

Linus

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