netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000e: get rid of wasted space

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:23:52 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: get rid of wasted space

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 19:11 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The name in the ring is only used once during setup so it shouldn't
> be in the data structure.
[...]

No.  The name pointer passed to request_irq() has to remain valid until
the IRQ is freed.  Try looking in /proc/interrupts.

Ben.

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