On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:41:05 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:43:44 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Would be nice to move dev_base and dev_base_lock somewhere, maybe
> > drivers/net/net_init.c (which really should be renamed libnet.c) or
> > perhaps somewhere in net/*
>
> Once all of the conversions are done, we can happily move
> this someone. My personal preference would be net/core/dev.c,
> as I believe we can limit all of the modifications to there
> eventually and thus not have to export those two symbols to
> the entire kernel any more.
>
> The fact that we export the list and it's locking makes it
> really hard to change things.
my current idea is to switch dev_base_lock over to RCU and
change dev_base to a list macro.
#define for_each_netdev(_d) list_for_each_entry_rcu(_d, &netdev_base,
dev_list)
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