Re: Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device

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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 07:41:30AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:43:18 -0500
> Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278
> > > Commit:     43cb76d91ee85f579a69d42bc8efc08bac560278
> > > Parent:     2943ecf2ed32632473c06f1975db47a7aa98c10f
> > > Author:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > > AuthorDate: Tue Apr 9 12:14:34 2002 -0700
> > > Committer:  Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> > > CommitDate: Wed Feb 7 10:37:11 2007 -0800
> > > 
> > >     Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device
> > >     
> > >     This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
> > >     issues, if it wants to.
> 
> It fixes a non-problem. I would like to see the network core suspend/resume
> proposal as well. Last time I examined doing network core suspend help,
> the problem was that the physical device suspend was called before the
> class device. It is not clear how this change would help.

Now the real device of the network device (ethX and such) will be called
first.  If not, something's wrong...

thanks,

greg k-h
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