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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Why does e1000 (in net-2.6) have extra pseudo-netdevices
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:04:15 -0700
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Since we have multi-queue tx, and multi-napi, why does E1000 still
have extra fake network devices?


 static int __devinit e1000_alloc_queues(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
{
...
       adapter->polling_netdev = kcalloc(adapter->num_rx_queues,
                                          sizeof(struct net_device),
                                          GFP_KERNEL);