netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3]netdevice: 82596: Convert netdev->priv to netdev

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Message-Id: <20081120.010114.116038785.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:01:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3]netdevice: 82596: Convert netdev->priv to
 netdev_priv

From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:25 +0800

> 1. When alloc_etherdev(), no memory be allocated to netdev->priv.
> 2. And it's need to get a whole page for priv.
> 
> For these reasons, use netdev->ml_priv to point to the page is the
> best method to convert directly reference of netdev->priv.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Applied, thanks for all the hard work on this one ;-)
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