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Message-ID: <9929d2390811191355k247ac638l4cb98f9c3cdc237f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:55:12 -0800 From: "Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com> Cc: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3) On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:27:05 -0800 > "Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stephen Hemminger >> <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote: >> > This sequence of patches breaks the network device adminstration >> > function table away from the network device data structure. It is >> > a transitional API change (both keep working), and this set of patches >> > hits a range of commonly used drivers. This should be enough to make sure >> > both old and new interfaces get used and tested. >> > >> > >> >> Did I miss a patch, or did you intentionally not convert ixgbe? > > Since it was so similar to ixgb, both files are patched in same patch bundle. > -- > Looking at this further, what is the benefit of this change? For this massive of a change, I would expect some sort of significant benefit. What is the driving force behind this change? -- Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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