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 16:24:27 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David,
> 
> Considering that these patches introduce only a tiny diff in the 
> low-level net driver, and that the viro work is still pending, I'm ok 
> with going ahead and applying these patches.
> 
> Since they mix net/* and drivers/net/*, I would actually prefer that you 
> merge 100% of the patchset, once the patchset is ok with you.

There was a tradeoff between what granularity of patchset. There is no
real dependency after the first two.


> Also, my tendency is to apply patches 1-8, and not apply patch 9 just 
> yet.  Even though patch 9 is a fix, those specific areas of code, I'm 
> betting, will change when those drivers are fixed WRT full dynamic 
> allocation and refcounting.
> 
> Comments?
> 
>       Jeff
>
Yeah, that is why 9 is last, so it can be split or dropped or whatever.