From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, NETDEV <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] netdevice zd1201: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev->ml_priv
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:56:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080905125626.GB3027@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C0A7A0.9030200@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:29:36AM +0800, Wang Chen wrote:
> 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.
>
> Different to readonly reference of netdev->priv, in this driver, netdev->priv
> was changed. I use netdev->ml_priv to replace netdev->priv.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Same comment as the other patch.
Also, I have to be honest and say that I had never been aware of
dev->ml_priv before, so I'm not entirely sure what it is. However,
from the comment at it's definision ("mid-layer private") and it's
usage in qeth, loopback, and ppp, I'm not at all sure that you are
using it as intended.
Can you explain?
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-05 3:06 [V#2 PATCH 0/18] netdevice: Fix directly reference of netdev->priv Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:09 ` [PATCH 01/18] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-1 Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:10 ` [PATCH 02/18] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-2 Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:11 ` [PATCH 03/18] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-3 Wang Chen
2008-09-05 13:58 ` David Dillow
2008-09-05 3:11 ` [PATCH 04/18] netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-4 Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:14 ` [PATCH 05/18] netdevice 82596: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev->ml_priv Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:15 ` [PATCH 06/18] netdevice chelsio: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:17 ` [PATCH 07/18] netdevice hamradio: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:19 ` [PATCH 08/18] netdevice lance: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:20 ` [PATCH 09/18] netdevice ni65: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:21 ` [PATCH 10/18] netdevice ppp: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:23 ` [PATCH 11/18] netdevice cycx_x25: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:24 ` [PATCH 12/18] netdevice hdlc: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 16:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-09-05 3:25 ` [PATCH 13/18] netdevice wanrouter: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:27 ` [PATCH 14/18] netdevice airo: " Wang Chen
2008-09-05 12:50 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20080905125036.GA3027-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-05 17:06 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1220634383.6430.14.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-06 9:37 ` Wang Chen
[not found] ` <48C24F66.1090803-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 8:37 ` Wang Chen
[not found] ` <48C0A219.2030004-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-05 3:28 ` [PATCH 15/18] netdevice libertas: Fix directly reference of netdev->priv Wang Chen
[not found] ` <48C0A76F.8090706-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-05 17:07 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <1220634465.6430.16.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
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 [this message]
[not found] ` <48C0A7A0.9030200-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-31 18:22 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <20081031182207.GD4310-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-31 18:48 ` [PATCH] netdevice zd1201: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev_priv() John W. Linville
[not found] ` <1225478896-28987-1-git-send-email-linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-31 19:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-03 2:06 ` Wang Chen
2008-12-18 6:53 ` [PATCH -next] netdevice zd1201: Use after free Wang Chen
2008-12-18 13:58 ` John W. Linville
[not found] ` <4949F36B.7080707-BthXqXjhjHXQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-19 3:37 ` David Miller
2008-09-05 3:30 ` [PATCH 17/18] netdevice pc300: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev->ml_priv Wang Chen
2008-09-09 13:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-09-05 3:31 ` [PATCH 18/18] netdevice sbni: Convert directly reference of netdev->priv to netdev_priv() Wang Chen
2008-09-05 3:42 ` [V#2 PATCH 0/18] netdevice: Fix directly reference of netdev->priv Wang Chen
2008-09-20 8:17 ` Wang Chen
2008-09-20 10:37 ` David Miller
2008-09-22 7:04 ` Wang Chen
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