From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [1/2] [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:12:11 -0700 Message-ID: <464398BB.8030606@goop.org> References: <463F95C3.60407@goop.org> <20070508121322.GA21647@gondor.apana.org.au> <464395E5.2090500@goop.org> <20070510.150750.118628150.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, hch@infradead.org, ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, ian.pratt@xensource.com, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, shemminge@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070510.150750.118628150.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge > Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 15:00:05 -0700 > > >> Herbert Xu wrote: >> >>> [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device >>> >>> These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the >>> network subsystem as it manages the carrier status. So it now >>> makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather >>> than allocating it on demand. >>> >> I think there's a problem with one of these two patches. >> > > Yes, there are :-) > > Did you catch the follow-on bug fixes? > Nope. Guess I got dropped from the cc: list. Was this on lkml or netdev? J