Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:45:11 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

From: Daniel Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Doing this makes loopback.c a better example of how to do a
simple network device, and it removes the special case
single static allocation of a struct net_device, hopefully
making maintenance easier.


What is before/after code and data size, does it make code smaller?

Interesting question, here are the results based on the same config file.

Without the patchset:
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vmlinux:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2446606  188243  163840 2798689  2ab461 vmlinux

loopback.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    417    1040       8    1465     5b9 drivers/net/loopback.o


With the patchset:
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vmlinux:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2446853  187187  163840 2797880  2ab138 ./vmlinux

loopback.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    609       4      12     625     271 drivers/net/loopback.o


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