David Miller wrote:
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:20:56 -0700
Minor loopback enhancements for 2.6.19
The loopback device status structure is a singleton and doesn't
need to be allocated. Add ethtool_ops hooks to show checksum always on,
and make ethtool_ops const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The ethtool bits are OK, but putting the loopback stats into
the image adds nearly 200 bytes of .data section space on
64-bit.
I don't really think it's that big of a deal to avoid the
kmalloc() call.
Yeah but doing the kmalloc is going to get a bigger chunk (rounded up),
anyway. The statistics should show up in BSS so it won't add to kernel size.
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