Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:45:21 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV |
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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? > There are enough PCI network devices, that something like alloc_pci_etherdev might be a good future idea.
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