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From: Donald Becker <becker () scyld ! com>
Date: 2003-03-20 4:40:40
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 kernel74@libero.it wrote:
> I have seen that the linux driver 3c59x.c now uses
> alloc_etherdev + register_netdev
> instead of
> init_etherdev (which includes register_netdevice).
My driver releases still use init_etherdev()
> What is the reason why you changed that ? Is there a reason why
> a device driver writer could prefere one approach or the other ?
Backwards compatibility... although that is very low on the list of
kernel development goals.
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Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
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