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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] network memory allocator.
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:38:37 +0100

> We could, but I'd rather waste 4 bytes in struct net_device than
> having such ugly warts in common code.

Why not instead have struct device store some default node value?
The node decision will be sub-optimal on non-pci but it won't crash.