netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3)

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3)

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:42:07 -0800

> This sequence of patches breaks the network device adminstration 
> function table away from the network device data structure. It is
> a transitional API change (both keep working), and this set of patches
> hits a range of commonly used drivers. This should be enough to make sure
> both old and new interfaces get used and tested.

I'm starting to apply these patches, thanks Stephen.

I really think we should move even fast-path function pointers
here.  When we have tons of virtual devices configured, it
doesn't make sense for us to touch tons of ->hard_start_xmit
pointer values which all evaluate to the same thing.

ops are ops
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