Re: [PATCH v2 05/14] net: core: provide priv_to_netdev()

[David Miller]

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 08:04:39 +0200

> I will if you insist but would you mind sharing some details on why it
> was removed? To me it still makes more sense than storing the pointer
> to a structure in *that* structure.

Flexibility in implementation of where the private data is located
and how it is allocated.

And yes, I do insist.