Re: tulip.c (maybe) bug???

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 25 May 1999 14:54:03 +0100 (BST)

> trying to use the private ioctl, but it seems to me that there is
> a problem with the pointer address. Should this patch solve the
> problem?

The original code is correct

> - u16 *data = (u16 *)&rq->ifr_data;
> + u16 *data = (u16 *)rq->ifr_data;

The patch breaks the driver. You are using rq->ifr_data as a pointer, it
is not, it is the data instance

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