Subject: [PATCH] rearrange netdevice structure to save space
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.network
Date: 2005-03-09 17:26:28 GMT (4 years, 16 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours and 7 minutes ago)
Trivial reordering of netdevice structure to save four bytes.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger <at> osdl.org>
diff -Nru a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h 2005-03-09 09:04:56 -08:00
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h 2005-03-09 09:04:56 -08:00
@@ -328,9 +328,7 @@
unsigned short flags; /* interface flags (a la BSD) */
unsigned short gflags;
unsigned short priv_flags; /* Like 'flags' but invisible to userspace. */
- unsigned short unused_alignment_fixer; /* Because we need priv_flags,
- * and we want to be 32-bit aligned.
- */
+ unsigned short padded; /* How much padding added by alloc_netdev() */
unsigned mtu; /* interface MTU value */
unsigned short type; /* interface hardware type */
@@ -487,8 +485,6 @@
/* class/net/name entry */
struct class_device class_dev;
- /* how much padding had been added by alloc_netdev() */
- int padded;
};
#define NETDEV_ALIGN 32