netdev - Re: [PATCH]: Resurrect napi

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Message-Id: <20070721.205425.61337743.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:54:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Resurrect napi_poll patch.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:39:32 +1000

> But if netdev -> driver_private can be optimized, so can driver_private
> -> netdev.  We just don't have a wrapper for it.  netdev_of() perhaps?
> 
> (If it can't be implemented by ptr arith, we have to do some allocation
> tricks to hide the dev ptr before driver_private, but it's still
> implementable).
> 
> Perhaps we should do this anyway: it's another "every driver wants it"
> kind of deal AFAICT...

Color me convinced :-)

Ok, I'll put the napi_struct info the driver private and respin
the patch.
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