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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (3/4) Support lots of netdev's -- hash ifindex
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:44:25 -0800
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:05:01 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> Hash network device index entries, to allow fast lookup by routing
> protocols.

Ok, I am applying this and the hash netdev by name patch.

I was going to allocate the tables at run time, not put them
into the image but since these go into the BSS it's not such
a big deal after all.

Thanks Stephen.