Re: netlink init order

[Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)]

On Sun, 25 May 2003 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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