From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081119190212.6d589358@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081119.173353.251644773.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 -0800 (PST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:42:07 -0800
>
> > This sequence of patches breaks the network device adminstration
> > function table away from the network device data structure. It is
> > a transitional API change (both keep working), and this set of patches
> > hits a range of commonly used drivers. This should be enough to make sure
> > both old and new interfaces get used and tested.
>
> I'm starting to apply these patches, thanks Stephen.
>
> I really think we should move even fast-path function pointers
> here. When we have tons of virtual devices configured, it
> doesn't make sense for us to touch tons of ->hard_start_xmit
> pointer values which all evaluate to the same thing.
>
> ops are ops
I have some more pending. I'll add neigh_setup and xmit stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-17 23:42 [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3) Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 01/33] netdev: network device operations infrastructure Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:26 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 5:27 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 02/33] netdev: introduce dev_get_stats() Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:40 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 9:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-20 12:27 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 03/33] netdev: expose ethernet address primitives Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:45 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 6:40 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 04/33] netdev: convert loopback to net_device_ops Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:46 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 05/33] ifb: convert " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:47 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 06/33] dummy: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:48 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 07/33] bridge: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:49 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 08/33] veth: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:50 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 09/33] macvlan: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:51 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 10/33] ip: convert to net_device_ops for ioctl Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:52 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 11/33] vlan: convert to net_device_ops Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:54 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 12/33] bonding: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:56 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 13/33] e1000e: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 5:58 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 14/33] sky2: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 1:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:00 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 15/33] skge: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:01 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 16/33] r8169: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 1:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 21:18 ` Francois Romieu
2008-11-20 6:07 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 19:55 ` Francois Romieu
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 17/33] 8139: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 1:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:09 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 18/33] tun: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:10 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 19/33] atl1e: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:12 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 20/33] atlx: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:14 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 21/33] cxgb3: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:15 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 22/33] cxgb2: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 1:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:17 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 23/33] e1000: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:18 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 24/33] via-velocity: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:19 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 25/33] igb: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:21 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 26/33] e100: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:22 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 27/33] ppp: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:22 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 28/33] enic: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:23 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 29/33] ixgb: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:24 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 30/33] tg3: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 0:42 ` Matt Carlson
2008-11-18 1:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-19 21:04 ` Matt Carlson
2008-11-19 21:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 1:21 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 6:25 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 31/33] forcedeth: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:27 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 32/33] niu: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:28 ` David Miller
2008-11-17 23:42 ` [PATCH 33/33] acenic: " Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-20 6:29 ` David Miller
2008-11-18 1:27 ` [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3) Jeff Kirsher
2008-11-18 1:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-18 1:43 ` Jeff Kirsher
2008-11-19 21:55 ` Jeff Kirsher
2008-11-19 22:04 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 1:33 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 3:02 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-11-20 5:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2008-11-20 5:25 ` David Miller
2008-11-20 6:15 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-20 6:37 ` David Miller
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