From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274983AbTHAXBy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:01:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274982AbTHAXBy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:01:54 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30865 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274980AbTHAXBv (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:01:51 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 16:01:49 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Peter Johanson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rmmodding e100 trace calls on 2.6.0-test2-mm2 Message-Id: <20030801160149.2392a079.shemminger@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030801224932.GA4241@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> References: <20030801224932.GA4241@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> Organization: Open Source Development Lab X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: &@E+xe?c%:&e4D{>f1O<&U>2qwRREG5!}7R4;D<"NO^UI2mJ[eEOA2*3>(`Th.yP,VDPo9$ /`~cw![cmj~~jWe?AHY7D1S+\}5brN0k*NE?pPh_'_d>6;XGG[\KDRViCfumZT3@[ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org One of the -mm patches produces a warning which will be taken care of later when all the network drivers are converted to dynamically allocating net_device's. At that point, a massive patch will be needed that changes all instances of: unregister_netdev(dev); my cleanup... kfree(dev); // becomes release_netdev(dev); new release_netdev() will release the dev kobject at that point. I have the code ready, just been waiting till all net device's converted. Prefer not to break the world at this point.