Re: [PATCH] support for large number of network devices.

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:52:52 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:46:31 -0800
> "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, but... I thought we had decided to move towards the hashing based
> > patch you said you had so we can kill two birds with one stone?
> > 
> > At least, that is the conclusion I thought we had arrived at.
> > :-)
> 
> The right way is a combination of the two pass dev_alloc_name and hashing
> the names.  Both work together

Ok, please resend the final version of your dev_alloc_name() bitmap patch
under seperate cover so I can apply it, thanks.