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* [PATCH 0/6]: Get rid of BUS_ID_SIZE in networking
@ 2009-05-27  4:39 David Miller
  2009-05-27 23:53 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2009-05-27  4:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: kay.sievers, greg


The generic device layer got rid of it's bus name string length
limitations by moving to dynamically allocated strings for names.

But there are things all over the tree that indirectly reference the
old BUS_ID_SIZE.

I had this glorious and ambitious patch almost finished that tried to
tackle the MII_BUS_ID_SIZE thing by similarly implementing dynamic
string lengths there but I gave up. :-) It's a lot of work and I do
not have the hardware to test this, and in order to just simply build
all the effected drivers I would have to use 3 or 4 different cross
compiles.  No thanks.

So most of this is in the form of either "get rid of it", "replace
with constant '20'", or "use MII_BUS_ID instead".

I'm pretty sure I got everything in the networking in net-next-2.6,
so if I missed anything let me know.

(Kay, I'll kill the sparc one in my sparc-next-2.6 tree when I
 next get the chance.)

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