netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: cleanup for net/core/dev.c

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Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:32:18 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Jianjun Kong <jianjun@...ux.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cleanup for net/core/dev.c

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:52:14PM +0800, Jianjun Kong wrote:

> -	if (sizeof_priv) {
> -		dev->priv = ((char *)dev +
> -			     ((sizeof(struct net_device) + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST)
> -			      & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST));
> -	}
> +	if (sizeof_priv)
> +		dev->priv = netdev_priv(dev);

If I understood all of this correctly, ->priv is going away, so there is
no point in changing it's initialisation.
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