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[Donald Becker]

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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