From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, NETDEV <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdevice zd1201: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev_priv()
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:06:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490E5CA4.4010707@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225478896-28987-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com>
John W. Linville said the following on 2008-11-1 2:48:
> We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv:
> 1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv().
> 2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously
> netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv.
> But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it
> directly.
>
> OK, becasue Dave S. Miller said, "every direct netdev->priv usage is a bug",
> and I want to kill netdev->priv later, I decided to convert all the direct
> reference of netdev->priv first.
>
> (Original patch posted by Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> w/ above
> changelog but using dev->ml_priv. That doesn't seem appropriate
> to me for this driver, so I've revamped it to use netdev_priv()
> instead. -- JWL)
>
> Cc: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/zd1201.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
snip...
> @@ -1731,6 +1731,7 @@ static int zd1201_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> const struct usb_device_id *id)
> {
> struct zd1201 *zd;
> + struct net_device *dev;
> struct usb_device *usb;
> int err;
> short porttype;
> @@ -1738,9 +1739,12 @@ static int zd1201_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
>
> usb = interface_to_usbdev(interface);
>
> - zd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct zd1201), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!zd)
> + dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*zd));
> + if (!dev)
> return -ENOMEM;
> + zd = netdev_priv(dev);
> + zd->dev = dev;
> +
It's ok to me.
Reviewed-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-03 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <48C0A219.2030004@cn.fujitsu.com>
2008-09-05 3:27 ` [PATCH 14/18] netdevice airo: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev->ml_priv Wang Chen
2008-09-05 12:50 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-05 17:06 ` Dan Williams
2008-09-06 9:37 ` Wang Chen
2008-09-26 8:37 ` Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:28 ` [PATCH 15/18] netdevice libertas: Fix directly reference of netdev->priv Wang Chen
2008-09-05 17:07 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-31 19:17 ` John W. Linville
2008-09-05 3:29 ` [PATCH 16/18] netdevice zd1201: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev->ml_priv Wang Chen
2008-09-05 12:56 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-31 18:22 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-31 18:48 ` [PATCH] netdevice zd1201: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev_priv() John W. Linville
2008-10-31 19:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-03 2:06 ` Wang Chen [this message]
2008-12-18 6:53 ` [PATCH -next] netdevice zd1201: Use after free Wang Chen
2008-12-18 13:58 ` John W. Linville
2008-12-19 3:37 ` David Miller
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