netdev - Re: [RFC] Get rid of netdev

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Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:02:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Get rid of netdev_nit

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:26:35 -0700

> It isn't any faster to test a boolean global variable than do a 
> simple check for empty list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>

I'll apply this, thanks Stephen.

I think the history is that long ago we used to export
netdev_nit and we didn't want to export the details of
the list implementation too.
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