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Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV

To: jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:09:44 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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   From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:59:21 -0400

   For janitors and other developers placing this in net drivers...
   please don't :)  This can be done in upper layers, accomplishing the
   same goal without changing the low-level net driver code at all.
   
Don't say something can be done without showing exactly
how :-)

How does register_netdevice() know that the device is "whatever" and
where to get the generic device struct from?


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