Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()

[David Miller]

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:12:14 +0000

> There might be practical considerations along the lines of "we want
> lookups for loopback to be fast"...

We have that taken care of, it's called "&loopback_dev".

None of the performance-caring paths do dev_get_by_name("lo")

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