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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/9) free_netdev -- delay freeing of net_device
 structure till after last use
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:48:18 -0700
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:18:00 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> It should be trivial to maintain source compatiablity with 2.4
> which doesn't need to change since it doesn't have sysfs,
> by adding something like this to netdevice.h in 2.4
> 
> static __inline__ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev) 
> {
> 	kfree(dev);
> }

Yes, but drivers that want to work with all 2.4.x trees
will need some kind of define to tip off of.  Just providing
a HAVE_FREE_NETDEV ought to be sufficient.

Jeff?