Re: [PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 27 2009 - 08:43:23 EST


From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:16:33 -0300

> Is this anything close to what needs to be done? It's not without
> failures, because the function mace_set_timeout receives a pointer to a
> struct net_device, but is marked inline and is used by mace_tx_timeout,
> which receives an unsigned long (which calls mace_set_timeout).
>
> Perhaps it would be a case of removing the inline hint to the compiler?
> I guess that BenH or Paul could comment here better...
>
> Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <rbrito@xxxxxxxxxx>

You can fix the mace_set_timeout() function arguments by having
a helper function that simply wraps around it and provides the
second expection of argument types.

Your patch is also wrong, it's missing a lot of netdev_ops
entries that are implicitly obtained via alloc_etherdev(),
namely:

.ndo_change_mtu = eth_change_mtu,
.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,

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