| To: | Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: netdev_ops retraction |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:50:03 -0400 |
| Cc: | netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:44:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Never mind the additional pointer dereference in the code, this is just
> a horribly large data structure. Unless someone convinces me otherwise,
> I'm going to drop this idea and revert to doing ethtool_ops as a separate
> data structure. I think there's still scope for a netdev_ops patch,
> but it's of dubious value and more of a 2.7 project.
Definitely OK with me.
And I think this is probably the best route for the moment, especially.
Jeff
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