Re: Porting problem: ndo_set_multicast_list removed

From: Woody Wu
Date: Mon Dec 24 2012 - 18:48:41 EST


On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:16:27AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 00:30 +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
> > Hi, list
> >
> > I am porting an ethernet driver from 2.6.x to 3.7.1. I found in the new
> > kernel, the ndo_set_multicast_list method in the net_device_ops had been
> > removed. What's the story behind? Can I simply ignore this method
> > defined in an old driver?
> >
> > Please also help to check the below code, is the list of the operations
> > defined for my driver enough or not?
> >
> > const struct net_device_ops ax_netdev_ops = {
> > .ndo_open = mydriver_open,
> > .ndo_stop = mydriver_close,
> > .ndo_start_xmit = mydriver_start_xmit,
> > .ndo_get_stats = mydriver_get_stats,
> > /*.ndo_set_multicast_list = mydriver_set_multicast_list,*/
> > .ndo_set_mac_address = mydriver_set_mac_address,
> > };
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> Take a look at :
>
> commit afc4b13df143122f99a0eb10bfefb216c2806de0
> Author: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Aug 16 06:29:01 2011 +0000
>
> net: remove use of ndo_set_multicast_list in drivers
>
> replace it by ndo_set_rx_mode
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>

Thanks for the info!

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woody
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