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Re: netdev_ops retraction

To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: netdev_ops retraction
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:50:03 -0400
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:44:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Never mind the additional pointer dereference in the code, this is just
> a horribly large data structure.  Unless someone convinces me otherwise,
> I'm going to drop this idea and revert to doing ethtool_ops as a separate
> data structure.  I think there's still scope for a netdev_ops patch,
> but it's of dubious value and more of a 2.7 project.

Definitely OK with me.

And I think this is probably the best route for the moment, especially.

        Jeff




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