From: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:09:19 -0400
> PS:- Dave, I think all this holding refcount thing on the input_dev is > complicating things. Lets just use the ifindex and forget about > refcounting; worst is we will end up failing some classification > somewhere - which if somebody really cares about they will have some > policy daemon listening to things and fixing the ifindices in the > kernel. I'm not prepared to stick my head into the sand just yet on this issue. :-) Calling __dev_get_by_index() at every classification check is quite silly and potentially expensive, so let's call using ifindex a last resort, yet correct, fix. - 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
