netdev - Re: [PATCH] add init_dummy_netdev() for napi only dummy intefaces

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Message-ID: <20061213130623.0d1153b7@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:06:23 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eugene Surovegin <ebs@...home.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add init_dummy_netdev() for napi only dummy intefaces

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:42:32 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:35 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > Could we split off the NAPI context part of network_device instead?
> > I'll work up something for 2.6.21.
> 
> That would do the trick too... though I prefer not putting my hands in
> network_device too much myself :-)
> 
> Ben
> 

There are other cases that need it as well (like backlog_device)
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