> In addition, the cleanup is partial. I believe that they should all
> be moving from static net_device structures to using
> init_etherdev, and
> other such changes. I didn't want to get into the realms of
> such large scale cleanup.
>
> There are two known ommissions from this patch.
>
> Firstly, none of the PCMCIA drivers are updated. Whereas the standard
> net drivers used a "char[] name" member in their private structure for
> allocating storage (normally insufficient), the PCMCIA drivers use the
> name member for other purposes. It may be that a simple "strcpy" will
> suffice, but I'll leave that for now.
or USB net drivers. Please give us a small bit of warning if/when
drivers need to be modified...or is this the notification?
Thanks,
Randy
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