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Message-Id: <20081113.000132.40213049.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:01:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 net-next] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv()
 #part-4

From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:43:53 +0800

> We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv:
> 1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv().
> 2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously
>    netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv.
> But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it
> directly.
> 
> This patch is a safe convert for netdev->priv to netdev_priv(netdev).
> Since all of the netdev->priv is only for read.
> But it is too big to be sent in one mail.
> I split it to 4 parts and make every part smaller than 100,000 bytes,
> which is max size allowed by vger.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Applied.
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