On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:41:54PM -0700, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > There is no problem as-is, but I implement unified cache for different
> > sockets (currently tcp/udp/raw and netlink are supported), which does
> > not use that table, so I currently wrap all access code into special
> > ifdefs, this one can be wrapped too, but since it is not needed, it
> > saves couple of lines of code.
>
> It is needed. It is there to make sure that a kernel netlink
> socket is not created before the af_netlink init code runs.
>
> We've had sequencing bugs like that in the initcall call chain
> in the past, that's why the check is there.
Argh, I see.
I fail to find exact commit (at least it was not in 2.4 and was created
before 2.6.12), but it is ineed neeed.
Thanks for explaination.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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