DJBARROW@de.ibm.com writes:
> This is a cure the syntom not the problem, build order shouldn't mess up
> something this simple.
The refcounting issue you've described is a bug, and so is
initializing a network device before net_dev_init() has been invoked.
These two things are equally buggy.
Build order does mess up things this simple, look at the comments at
the top of drivers/scsi/Makefile if you don't believe me :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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