netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3)

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Message-ID: <20081119190212.6d589358@extreme>
Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:12 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3)

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:42:07 -0800
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I'm starting to apply these patches, thanks Stephen.
> 
> I really think we should move even fast-path function pointers
> here.  When we have tons of virtual devices configured, it
> doesn't make sense for us to touch tons of ->hard_start_xmit
> pointer values which all evaluate to the same thing.
> 
> ops are ops

I have some more pending. I'll add neigh_setup and xmit stuff.
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