Re: [CFT] 2.6.x experimental net driver updates

viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:33:08PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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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