On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:42:06 -0700 Brandon Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This patch set adds support for devres in the net core and converts the > e100 and e1000 drivers to devres. Devres is a simple resource manager > for device drivers, see Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt for more > information. > > The use of devres will remain optional for drivers with this patch set. > Drivers can be converted when it makes sense. Just because devres exists is not sufficient motivation to change. It seems that devres was a band-aid rather than fixing storage drivers to have proper DMA lifetimes. Network devices seem to work fine thanks, and the resource requirements are different. If ain't broke, don't fix it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
