From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 net-next] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-3
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:01:26 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113.000126.224647115.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491B9464.3060204@cn.fujitsu.com>
From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:43:48 +0800
> We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv:
> 1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv().
> 2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously
> netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv.
> But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it
> directly.
>
> This patch is a safe convert for netdev->priv to netdev_priv(netdev).
> Since all of the netdev->priv is only for read.
> But it is too big to be sent in one mail.
> I split it to 4 parts and make every part smaller than 100,000 bytes,
> which is max size allowed by vger.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Applied.
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2008-11-13 2:43 [PATCH 3/4 net-next] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-3 Wang Chen
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