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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:03:48 +0100

> You mean "struct dev_mc_list"? But that would solve nothing. If I would still
> use current structure in drivers, then still the migration to struct_hw_addr
> would be all-at-once for all drivers :( This patch was exacly made to avoid
> this.

I think changing the iterator type will have to be done
wholesale in one changeset, there is no reasonable way
to avoid it.