Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] network memory allocator.

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:40:08 -0700 (PDT)

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:38:37 +0100

> We could, but I'd rather waste 4 bytes in struct net_device than
> having such ugly warts in common code.

Why not instead have struct device store some default node value?
The node decision will be sub-optimal on non-pci but it won't crash.