netgraph(3) initialization order
    Maksim Yevmenkin 
    maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
       
    Tue Jan  4 13:21:44 PST 2005
    
    
  
Dear Hackers,
would anyone object if i change SI_ORDER_MIDDLE in the 
/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2994 to say SI_ORDER_THIRD, i.e.
change
DECLARE_MODULE(netgraph, netgraph_mod, SI_SUB_DRIVERS, SI_ORDER_MIDDLE);
to
DECLARE_MODULE(netgraph, netgraph_mod, SI_SUB_DRIVERS, SI_ORDER_THIRD);
the reason for this change is that bluetooth device drivers depend on 
netgraph(4) and when both netgraph(4) and bluetooth device driver (such 
as ng_ubt(4)) compiled in the kernel you get a crash. basically 
ng_ubt(4) mod_load callback is called before netgraph(4) mod_load 
callback and ng_findtype() crashes on uninitialized mutex (DEVICE_MODULE 
macro passes SI_SUB_DRIVERS, SI_ORDER_THIRD to the DECLARE_MODULE).
option #2 would be to have DEVICE_MODULE_ORDERED macro which accepts two 
extra parameters.
and finally option #3 would be to duplicate entire content of the 
DEVICE_MODULE macro in all bluetooth device drivers and specify order in 
DECLARE_MODULE macro.
any thoughts?
thanks,
max
    
    
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