Re: [PATCH stable-only] virtio-net: fix build on m68k and sparc64

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As a result of backporting a bugfix, virtio_net started passing void *
> to page_address, assuming that it will get silently converted to struct
> page *. But this does not happen on architectures where page_address is
> a macro, the result is build failure as the macro tries to dereference
> void*.
>
> Fix by reordering code slightly, so we always pass
> struct page * to page_address.

Thanks for the clue! I was just investigating a similar failure in -next.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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