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Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [email protected] wrote: > I have seen that the linux driver 3c59x.c now uses > alloc_etherdev + register_netdev > instead of > init_etherdev (which includes register_netdevice). My driver releases still use init_etherdev() > What is the reason why you changed that ? Is there a reason why > a device driver writer could prefere one approach or the other ? Backwards compatibility... although that is very low on the list of kernel development goals. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex