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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:46:12 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
   Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:45:21 -0700

   There are enough PCI network devices, that something like 
   alloc_pci_etherdev might
   be a good future idea.
   
What is sos special about PCI? :-)

In this light, alloc_device_etherdev() seems much more appropriate.

But we can play this game AD_INFINITUM, for each and every paramter
that is common across a class of ethernet devices.  At what point
do you stop? :-)