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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 21:44:57 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove net driver ugliness that sparse complains about
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On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 02:14:16PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 
> I'm a bit curious why sparse complained about taking the _address_ of 
> pointer, but nonetheless it's an ugliness that should be contained 
> before it spreads :)  Attached is a proposed cleanup patch for comment. 
>  The ugliness is confined to include/linux/mii.h, and I avoid use the 
> ifru_data field completely.

sparse hadn't ;-)  I had, when I saw it in grep output.