Re: [patch 1/7] net_device list cleanup: core

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:48:13AM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B wrote:

In article [ref] (at Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:54:25 +0400), Andrey Savochkin [off-list ref] says:

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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:34:34PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B wrote:

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In article [ref] (at Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:18:51 +0400), Andrey Savochkin [off-list ref] says:

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@@ -3271,22 +3277,22 @@ int unregister_netdevice(struct net_devi
 
 	/* And unlink it from device chain. */
 	for (dp = &dev_base; (d = *dp) != NULL; dp = &d->next) {

Why not for_each_netdev?

it's a different list

Sorry, I still do not understand.
In other words, why will we still have dev->next?
After introducing net_device->dev_list, we do not need
dev->next anymore, do we?

dev->next is removed in the last patch, to make possible the bisection
of patch list.