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Re: The recent free_netdev() conversion...

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The recent free_netdev() conversion...
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:58:14 -0700
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On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:58:47 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> True, but for long term, it's best to use free_netdev().  Besides 
> naturally pairing with alloc_foodev(), if we ever decide to have 
> alloc_netdev() perform more than one allocation, free_netdev() will 
> already be in place to handle the multiple de-allocations.

Okie dokie, I'll take patches that fix any of these
cases.

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