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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: ipfw initialization: SI_ORDER_ANY -> SI_ORDER_MIDDLE?
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:17:19AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > The SI_ORDER_* definitions in /sys/sys/kernel.h are enumerated on a
> > large range, so if the existing code does not have races,
> > you can safely move the non-leaf modules
> > (such as ipfw,ko in your case) to (SI_ORDER_ANY - some_small_integer)
> > without breaking anything.
> 
> fine, i did this.
>  
> is it MFCable?

i think so, the SI_ORDER_* definitions are the same at least down to
RELENG_6, which is the lowest release we probably care about.

cheers
luigi