netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] drivers: Kill now superfluous ->last

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Message-Id: <20090902.230954.227402492.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:09:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] drivers: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx
 stores

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:34:50 +0200

> Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>> Neil Horman a écrit :
>>> I still see a large number of drivers that update dev->last_rx, although its
>>> not all as I look through the list, so something definately seems amiss.
>> 
>> Some drivers still update dev->last_rx for their own needs, not a core
>> network concern.
>> 
>> But a cleanup is certainly possible on few other drivers, about a dozen
>> if I count correctly.
> 
> Well, a litle bit more if we look outside of drivers/net
> 
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] drivers: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores
> 
> The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
> netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
> bonding ARP monitor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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