From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: netdev_ops retraction Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:50:03 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030730185003.GA9253@gtf.org> References: <20030730184416.GI22222@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Matthew Wilcox Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030730184416.GI22222@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:44:16PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Never mind the additional pointer dereference in the code, this is just > a horribly large data structure. Unless someone convinces me otherwise, > I'm going to drop this idea and revert to doing ethtool_ops as a separate > data structure. I think there's still scope for a netdev_ops patch, > but it's of dubious value and more of a 2.7 project. Definitely OK with me. And I think this is probably the best route for the moment, especially. Jeff