I want to take all the function pointers of 'struct net_device' and move them to 'struct net_device_ops'. This will save memory for the case of lots of devices, as well as reduce initialization code.
Rough plan: 1. Introduce inline accessors so protocols don't dereference dev->XXX directly. 2. Fix protocols to use #1 3. Add ops field to net_device, and netdevice_register will fill in old values in 'struct net_device'. 4...1300 Fix all network devices to use ops field 1301 Change accessors to use ops, get rid of old 'struct net_device' function pointers. It isn't rocket science just another code exercise. I'll patch bomb it into something like 2.6.23-mm first. This should really help the people who like to do 1000's of vlans etc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
