netdev - Re: [patch 0/5][RFC] Update network drivers to use devres

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Message-ID: <20070803095857.5fb3f368@oldman.hamilton.local>
Date:	Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:58:57 +0100
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, teheo@...e.de
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5][RFC] Update network drivers to use devres

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:42:06 -0700
Brandon Philips <brandon@...p.org> wrote:

> This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and converts the
> e100 and e1000 drivers to devres.  Devres is a simple resource manager
> for device drivers, see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt for more
> information.
> 
> The use of devres will remain optional for drivers with this patch set.
> Drivers can be converted when it makes sense.

Just because devres exists is not sufficient motivation to change.

It seems that devres was a band-aid rather than fixing storage drivers
to have proper DMA lifetimes. 
Network devices seem to work fine thanks, and the resource requirements
are different. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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