Re: [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device structure till after last use

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:09:21 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:13:26 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > David S. Miller wrote:
> > > Yes, but drivers that want to work with all 2.4.x trees
> > > will need some kind of define to tip off of.  Just providing
> > > a HAVE_FREE_NETDEV ought to be sufficient.
> > > 
> > > Jeff?
> > 
> > Yeah, that works for me.
> 
> Ok, so what I'm going to do is apply all of Stephen's
> patches and I'll add the HAVE_FREE_NETDEV define to
> linux/netdevice.h

Ok fine.

diff -Nru a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h Tue Aug 19 13:28:03 2003
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h Tue Aug 19 13:28:03 2003
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 
 #define HAVE_ALLOC_NETDEV              /* feature macro: alloc_xxxdev
                                           functions are available. */
+#define HAVE_FREE_NETDEV
 
 #define NET_XMIT_SUCCESS       0
 #define NET_XMIT_DROP          1       /* skb dropped                  */