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From: "Peter Waskiewicz" <pjwaskiewicz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:12:24 -0700

> This would be a good opportunity to remove the single-allocated queue struct
> in netdevice (at the bottom) that we had to put in to accomodate the static
> loopback.  Now we can set it back to a zero element list, and have
> alloc_netdev_mq() just allocate the number of queues requested, not
> num_queues - 1.
> 
> I'll put a patch together based on this patchset.

Thanks Peter.

I'll also let this sit so that Eric can provide any feedback
he wants and also figure out how he will use this for the
namespace stuff.