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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: marcel@holtmann.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:55:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904.225524.13134133.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252129940.27694.9.camel@violet>

From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:52:20 +0200

>> > What is ugly about it. Do you have any other recommendation on how let
>> > userspace know what type of Ethernet device it is?
>> 
>> Well, for one thing, you're wasting 48 bytes on 64-bit when all you're
>> really intrested in is one string.
> 
> the integration with struct device has plenty of other advantages

Ok, this I agree with.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-05  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-01  7:08 [PATCH] net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-01  7:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-09-01  7:33   ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-05  0:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-05  3:27   ` David Miller
2009-09-05  4:34     ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-05  4:46       ` David Miller
2009-09-05  5:52         ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-05  5:55           ` David Miller [this message]
2009-09-05  4:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-09-05  5:55   ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-09-11 19:37 ` David Miller

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