viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:33:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Ok, Al Viro's net driver refcounting work is pretty much complete, and
The hell it is. We are through with legacy probes, we are through with
init_etherdev(), we are practically through with static struct net_device.
hehe :) I don't mean to suggest that all is clean and pure :)
However, we still have weird allocators (I've got almost all of them
done by now, will submit in the next batch) and we still have struct
net_device embedded as a field of other structures in several drivers.
Some of that will be interesting. ns83820 for example embedded
net_device on purpose... Ben seemed to think at the time it gave him
some speed, a few less pointer derefs and such.
Jeff
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