From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:38:07 +0200 Message-ID: <467BC2AF.8080901@trash.net> References: <20070622034452.28886.0@janus.isnogud.escape.de> <20070622034703.28886.5@janus.isnogud.escape.de> <467BAC48.1070700@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Thomas Gleixner , Oliver Hartkopp , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Urs Thuermann Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:62700 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753034AbXFVMio (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:38:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Urs Thuermann wrote: > Patrick McHardy writes: > > >>Is there a reason why you're still doing the "allocate n devices >>on init" thing instead of using the rtnl_link API? > > > Sorry, it's simply a matter of time. We have been extremely busy with > other projects and two presentations (mgmt, customers, and press) the > last two weeks and have worked on the other changes this week. I'm > sorry I haven't yet been able to look at your rtnl_link code close > enough, but it's definitely on my todo list. Starting on Sunday I'll > be on a business trip to .jp for a week, and I hope I get to it in > that week, otherwise on return. Sorry, but busy is no reason for merging code that has deprecated (at least by me :)) behaviour. Please change this before submitting for inclusion.