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Message-ID: <EA929A9653AAE14F841771FB1DE5A1365F49CD6EE4@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:01:16 -0600
From:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] e1000e: get rid of wasted space

Jeff Garzik wrote:

>
>Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> The name in the ring is only used once during setup so it shouldn't
>> be in the data structure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
[snip]
>
>ACK
>
>for what it's worth...  I am following DaveM's lead, and waiting until
>net-next opens to start taking patches for 2.6.29.  He wants
>us to focus
>on bug fixing for now.
>
>So, please resend once the merge window opens... thanks.
>

NAK.  Seriously. Don't resend this.  NAK.

That string DOES get used later, like when you cat /proc/interrupts.
So you can't allocate it on the stack.  It's got to be persistent,
just like we have it.  Heck, look at the declaration for
request_irq().  The devname param is declared as const char *.

So NAK.  Same for igb and ixgbe.  Don't do this.

-Mitch
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