From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: get rid of wasted space Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:23:52 +0100 Message-ID: <1224584632.3243.2.camel@achroite> References: <20081020191149.1dbf8e3b@extreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jesse Brandeburg , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.141]:45110 "EHLO smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752330AbYJUKX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:23:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081020191149.1dbf8e3b@extreme> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 19:11 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The name in the ring is only used once during setup so it shouldn't > be in the data structure. [...] No. The name pointer passed to request_irq() has to remain valid until the IRQ is freed. Try looking in /proc/interrupts. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.