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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:39:25 +0100
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David Miller a =E9crit :
> Checking this in made me feel as if the weight of the
> world had been lifted off of my shoulders :-)

Oh great !

One thing we wont discuss anymore once in a while :)

>=20
> Commited to net-next-2.6
>=20
> drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
>=20
> The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
> netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
> bonding ARP monitor.
>=20
> Drivers need not do it any more.
>=20
> Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
> were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>