From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net-2.6.24: move hardware header operations out of netdevice Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:20:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070926.222045.91776503.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070925.192428.18597166.davem@davemloft.net> <20070926172129.5550a636@freepuppy.rosehill> <20070926172246.0425e232@freepuppy.rosehill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53277 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751763AbXI0FUp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:20:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070926172246.0425e232@freepuppy.rosehill> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org =46rom: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:22:46 -0700 > Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class > not the device instance, make them into a separate object and > save memory. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger I applied this by hand since there were conflicts with Eric B.'s round of network namespace patches from today which I applied first. Also: > --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c 2007-09-26 15:07:23.000000000 -070= 0 > +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c 2007-09-26 16:41:09.000000000 -070= 0 > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ > * devices like TTY. It interfaces between a raw TTY and the > * kernel's AX.25 protocol layers. > * > - * Authors: Andreas K=F6nsgen > + * Authors: Andreas K=F6nsgen > * Ralf Baechle DL5RB > * > * Quite a lot of stuff "stolen" by Joerg Reuter from slip.c, writte= n by This hunk rejected and I therefore left it out. Whatever editor you used aparently tried to change the character set encoding or something silly like that.