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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 21:23:16 -0700

> Vlan code uses several of the methods, so I'm not sure how it will save 
> any memory

Feeling particularly dense today?

Only one copy of the ops will be needed for all vlan devices:

static const struct netdev_ops vlan_netdev_ops = {
	...
};

Then VLAN device creation goes, "vlan_netdev->ops = &vlan_netdev_ops;"

Clearer now?