Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:27:40 -0400


David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:59:21 -0400
>
> For janitors and other developers placing this in net drivers...
> please don't :) This can be done in upper layers, accomplishing the
> same goal without changing the low-level net driver code at all.
>
> Don't say something can be done without showing exactly
> how :-)
>
> How does register_netdevice() know that the device is "whatever" and
> where to get the generic device struct from?

Doh! You are totally right -- it can't get the association any other
way. Folks, ignore me :)

Jeff

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