From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: netdev_ops? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:30:10 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F1E1D62.90009@candelatech.com> References: <3F1E17BC.30100@candelatech.com> <20030722220745.379a73c6.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030722220745.379a73c6.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:06:04 -0700 > Ben Greear wrote: > > >>Any progress towards getting the netdev_ops into 2.4? >> >>I have several patches that would benefit (in that no new ioctls >>would be needed) if this goes in. > > > If anything, it's going to go into 2.6.x first, and then backported > to 2.4.x after it's had a few months of testing and tweaking. > Any interest in a lower-risk netdev-ops lite? I have a relatively ugly little patch that will allow me to handle certain ETHTOOL ioctls in dev.c's ioctl handling code. Ugly, but short, and very little chance of breaking anything else.... -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear