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From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
To: Andrey Savochkin <saw@swsoft.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] net_device list cleanup: core
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 20:35:37 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060704163537.GA10990@ms2.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060704185035.A29778@castle.nmd.msu.ru>

Hello!

> Different modules want different kinds of lookup.
> So, I'm thinking about something like ilookup5.
....
> The next question: would people agree to review a patch doing this for
> net_devices? :)

One not original suggestion, which did not sound nevertheless:
to implement netdev_iterate_list() or whatever, update only core
and a few of devices and deprecate dev_base_head
with __deprecated_for_modules adding it to
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-04 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03  8:18 [patch 1/7] net_device list cleanup: core Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 2/7] net_device list cleanup: proc seq_file output Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 3/7] net_device list cleanup: netlink_dump Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 4/7] net_device list cleanup: drivers and non-IP protocols Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-07 19:18   ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 5/7] net_device list cleanup: arch-dependent code and block devices Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 6/7] net_device list cleanup: dev_base removal Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03  8:18 ` [patch 7/7] net_device list cleanup: debugging Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-03 17:46 ` [patch 1/7] net_device list cleanup: core Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-04  7:24   ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-04  9:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-04 14:50       ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-04 16:35         ` Alexey Kuznetsov [this message]
2006-07-05  8:26           ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-07  4:34 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-07-07  7:54   ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-07-07 16:48     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-07-10  6:53       ` Andrey Savochkin

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