From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [1/2] [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070510.150750.118628150.davem@davemloft.net> References: <463F95C3.60407@goop.org> <20070508121322.GA21647@gondor.apana.org.au> <464395E5.2090500@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hch@infradead.org, ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, ian.pratt@xensource.com, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, shemminge@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu To: jeremy@goop.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41875 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755987AbXEJWHs (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 18:07:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <464395E5.2090500@goop.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:00:05 -0700 > Herbert Xu wrote: > > [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device > > > > These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the > > network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now > > makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather > > than allocating it on demand. > > I think there's a problem with one of these two patches. Yes, there are :-) Did you catch the follow-on bug fixes?