netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/core: use net_device dev

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Message-ID: <20100526160919.GA11096@mtldesk030.lab.mtl.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 19:09:19 +0300
From:	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	rdreier@...co.com, yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: use net_device dev_id to indicate port number

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:33:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> SET_NETDEV_DEV macro exists because at the time 2.5 kernel was being developed
> it was important to be able to maintain source compatibility between 2.4 and
> 2.6 (nee 2.5) drivers. Since 2.4 did not have sysfs, the macro was a mechanism
> to allow the same code to run on both kernel versions.
> 
> Your situation is different, just use dev_id and update documentation if
> you need to.
> 

OK, great. Things get much much simpler :-)
I'll send another patch for mlx4_en only.
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