On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 08:33:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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> 
> SET_NETDEV_DEV macro exists because at the time 2.5 kernel was being developed
> it was important to be able to maintain source compatibility between 2.4 and
> 2.6 (nee 2.5) drivers. Since 2.4 did not have sysfs, the macro was a mechanism
> to allow the same code to run on both kernel versions.
> 
> Your situation is different, just use dev_id and update documentation if
> you need to.
> 

OK, great. Things get much much simpler :-)
I'll send another patch for mlx4_en only.
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