From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:32:24 +0000 (-0800) Subject: netdev: network device operations infrastructure X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc1~581^2~677 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d314774cf2cd5dfeb39a00d37deee65d4c627927;p=pandora-kernel.git netdev: network device operations infrastructure This patch changes the network device internal API to move adminstrative operations out of the network device structure and into a separate structure. This patch involves some hackery to maintain compatablity between the new and old model, so all 300+ drivers don't have to be changed at once. For drivers that aren't converted yet, the netdevice_ops virt function list still resides in the net_device structure. For old protocols, the new net_device_ops are copied out to the old net_device pointers. After the transistion is completed the nag message can be changed to an WARN_ON, and the compatiablity code can be made configurable. Some function pointers aren't moved: * destructor can't be in net_device_ops because it may need to be referenced after the module is unloaded. * neighbor setup is manipulated in a couple of places that need special consideration * hard_start_xmit is in the fast path for transmit. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed