From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move eth_mac_addr and eth_change_mtu
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:57:21 -0400
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:19:46PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>>Move eth_mac_addr() and eth_change_mtu() from drivers/net/net_init.c
>>>to net/ethernet/eth.c
>>
>>Why?  It's not used outside of net_init.c AFAICS.
> 
> 
> Preparation for the next stage of netdev_ops


Well, I don't see/understand this next-stage, so elaboration would be 
nice.  As-is, I do not support merging this patch.

	Jeff