From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, mochel@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device structure till after last use
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:48:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030819124818.476dc36d.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030819121800.009db89b.shemminger@osdl.org>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:18:00 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> It should be trivial to maintain source compatiablity with 2.4
> which doesn't need to change since it doesn't have sysfs,
> by adding something like this to netdevice.h in 2.4
>
> static __inline__ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> kfree(dev);
> }
Yes, but drivers that want to work with all 2.4.x trees
will need some kind of define to tip off of. Just providing
a HAVE_FREE_NETDEV ought to be sufficient.
Jeff?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 19:18 [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device structure till after last use Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-19 19:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-19 20:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-19 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 20:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
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