From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:25:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] simnet: convert to net_device_ops Message-Id: <20081210.152524.226506156.davem@davemloft.net> List-Id: References: <20081209150827.GA8134@x200.localdomain> <20081209.225728.07389385.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: a.beregalov@gmail.com Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org From: "Alexander Beregalov" Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:21:46 +0300 > 2008/12/10 David Miller : > > From: Alexey Dobriyan > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:08:27 +0300 > > > >> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote: > >> > CC arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.o > >> > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c: In function 'simeth_probe1': > >> > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c:212: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open' > >> > >> [PATCH] simeth: convert to net_device_ops > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan > > > > This doesn't explain the build failure. > > > > Using ->open() and friends should work perfectly fine for drivers not > > yet converted to netdev_ops. The code protected by COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS > > provides this, and we force that Kconfig option to always be on. > > > > I don't want to add this patch and just shrug off this build failure. > > If this build failures, we should be seeing 200 other drivers not > > build too. > > > > I suspect something is messed up with this person's kernel config > > or similar. > > > > Thanks for explanation. > Is it better? Good fix, except that your email client corrupted the patch by turning tab characters into spaces. I fixed this up and applied your patch. But please next time provide a proper Signed-off-by line too.