From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
fengguang.wu@intel.com, dcbw@redhat.com, jiri@resnulli.us,
David.Laight@aculab.com, marcel@holtmann.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3 v5] drivers: net: ethernet: qualcomm: rmnet: Initial implementation
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 23:34:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <189aff978eef108edaf9872c50f1f19f@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170821210853.4b1a150d@xeon-e3>
>> + priv = netdev_priv(rmnet_dev);
>> + memset(priv, 0, sizeof(struct rmnet_priv));
>
> Netdev private area is always zero on creation. See alloc_netdev().
>
>> + if (!rmnet_dev)
>> + return 0;
>
> Do not confuse 0 with NULL. Did you run sparse?
>
>> +
>> + priv = netdev_priv(rmnet_dev);
>> + if (!priv)
>> + return 0;
>
>
> netdev_priv() always returns a non-NULL value. The private area is
> just
> a constant offset below the original network_device structure.
Hi Stephen
I havent used sparse till now. I'll fix the errors reported by it as
well
your other comments and post again.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-22 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-17 0:55 [PATCH net-next 0/3 v5] Add support for rmnet driver Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2017-08-17 0:55 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3 v5] net: ether: Add support for multiplexing and aggregation type Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2017-08-17 0:55 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3 v5] net: arp: Add support for raw IP device Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2017-08-17 0:55 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3 v5] drivers: net: ethernet: qualcomm: rmnet: Initial implementation Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2017-08-17 3:16 ` Dan Williams
2017-08-17 6:38 ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2017-08-19 12:56 ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-22 4:08 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-22 5:34 ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan [this message]
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