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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update embedded copy of ethtool.h from kernel 2.6.30
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:21:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1259680878.2831.3.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091201151750.GG5694@axis.com>

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:17 +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote:
> Commit 0c09c1a49cc7b819b33566a49d9901f7cfdd6889 in the Linux kernel
> added a new field mdio_support inside the struct ethtool_cmd,
> changing the struct size for architectures that does not pad structs.
> (for example the CRIS architecture)

CRIS has no alignment requirements?!  Wow.  Sorry for changing the
structure, then.

> This size mismatch lead to the ethtool_cmd struct being written
> as 44 bytes in the kernel, but only 43 bytes allocated on stack,
> overwriting one byte in the stack frame.
> 
> Update the ethtool copy of the definition to match the 2.6.30 kernel.
[...]

This has already been done.

Ben.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01 15:17 [PATCH] Update embedded copy of ethtool.h from kernel 2.6.30 Jesper Nilsson
2009-12-01 15:21 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-12-01 15:42   ` Jesper Nilsson
2009-12-01 15:52     ` Ben Hutchings
2009-12-01 15:54       ` Jesper Nilsson

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