From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:39:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490FEE1D.5090307@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081103.211255.143270364.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller a écrit :
> Checking this in made me feel as if the weight of the
> world had been lifted off of my shoulders :-)
Oh great !
One thing we wont discuss anymore once in a while :)
>
> Commited to net-next-2.6
>
> drivers/net: 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.
>
> Drivers need not do it any more.
>
> Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
> were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 5:12 [PATCH]: drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores David Miller
2008-11-04 6:39 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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