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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: loopback driver cleanup
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:05:41 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:51:51 +0200

> loopback driver uses dev->ml_priv to store its percpu stats pointer.
> It uses ugly casts "(void __percpu __force *)" to shut up sparse
> complains.
> 
> Define an union to better document we use ml_priv in loopback driver and
> define a lstats field with appropriate types.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.