Re: Regarding SET_NETDEV_DEV

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 22:09:44 EST


   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?

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