Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> writes:

[ethX reordering]

> in the relative rare case that more than one network driver actually
> has to be loaded, if the order in which the drivers call their init
> routines changes. There's nothing which would stop "driver loading
> support software" from ensuring that this won't happen gratuitiously.

Afterthought: Considering that the kernel has to serialize these init
calls, anyway, so that it can assign unique numbers, this great
"performance optimization" actually just ends up with creating avoidable
lock contention.