From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/33] Network Devices Ops (v0.3) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:02:12 -0800 Message-ID: <20081119190212.6d589358@extreme> References: <20081117234207.854110282@vyatta.com> <20081119.173353.251644773.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:44587 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920AbYKTDCQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:02:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081119.173353.251644773.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:33:53 -0800 (PST) David Miller wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger > 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.