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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill ancient compat cruft from acenic
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:47:14 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:36:17AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> 
> Christoph> This kills all the cruft needed for supporting anything
> Christoph> other than halfway recent 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.  Should make
> Christoph> converting to the pci hotplug APIs much easier.
> 
> Looks pretty decent, are you sure the MOD_INC_USE_COUNT isn't needed
> for 2.4.18+ ? (no I haven't checked).

Yes, 2.4 already has the owner field in struct net_device.