[PATCH] Patch/resubmit(2.5.50): Eliminate pci_dev.driver_data
To review, this patch deletes pci_dev.driver_data, using the existing pci_dev.device.driver_data field instead, thereby shrinking struct pci_dev by four bytes on 32-bit machines. The few device drivers that attempted to directly reference pci_dev.driver_data were fixed in a patch of mine that Jeff Garzik got into 2.5.45. Also, making this change should help with memory allocation improvements in the future, although that's a separate issue.
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