[ECOS] NETDEVTAB question

[ECOS] NETDEVTAB question

[Jani Monoses]

Hi
Is there a reason why net devices cannot be put in the DEVTAB along with
other io devices and be initialized at the same time.I see that both
tcpip stack and redboot  explicitely walk the NETDEVTAB and init the
devices.

thanks
Jani


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Re: [ECOS] NETDEVTAB question

[Jonathan Larmour]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> 
> Hi
> Is there a reason why net devices cannot be put in the DEVTAB along with
> other io devices and be initialized at the same time.I see that both
> tcpip stack and redboot  explicitely walk the NETDEVTAB and init the
> devices.

It's a slight anachronism as we used to be forced to do it this way. But
now that that's the case, we have other code that relies on it being that
way - e.g. the code in redboot's net_io.c that needs to run before the
NETDEVTAB entries, and the code that has to run after it. This is the
easiest way to maintain that strict ordering.

Any reason to change it?

Jifl
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