From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:45:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EDD6B51.9070909@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030603.200944.78736971.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:59:21 -0400
>
> For janitors and other developers placing this in net drivers...
> please don't :) This can be done in upper layers, accomplishing the
> same goal without changing the low-level net driver code at all.
>
>Don't say something can be done without showing exactly
>how :-)
>
>How does register_netdevice() know that the device is "whatever" and
>where to get the generic device struct from?
>
There are enough PCI network devices, that something like
alloc_pci_etherdev might
be a good future idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-04 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-03 17:59 Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV Jeff Garzik
2003-06-04 3:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-04 3:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-04 3:45 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-06-04 3:46 ` David S. Miller
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