Re: Initialising net/ipv4/ before net/ipv6/ breaks IPv6 autoconf with nfsroot....

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:22 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> If at some point we create some initialization dependency between ipv4
> and ipv6 (f.e. ipv6 init needs some ipv4 table setup) we will need to
> tread carefully to keep this from breaking.

True. For 2.6 in fact we can do it this way...

===== net/ipv4/ipconfig.c 1.35 vs edited =====
--- 1.35/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c    Wed Oct  8 01:37:44 2003
+++ edited/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c  Fri Feb 20 19:00:23 2004
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
        return 0;
 }
 
-module_init(ip_auto_config);
+late_initcall(ip_auto_config);
 
 
 /*


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dwmw2