Re: getting "struct pci_dev" from "struct netdevice"

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 18:54:28 EDT

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> Since struct pci_dev is probably going to morph into a more generic
> struct hw_dev, maybe struct netdevice needs a pci_dev member...

There is no guarantee there would be a meaningful pci_dev. In addition in
a hot pluggable box the pointer is useless since it will change arbitarily

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