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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: adobriyan@gmail.com
Cc: a.beregalov@gmail.com, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simnet: convert to net_device_ops
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:57:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081209.225728.07389385.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209150827.GA8134@x200.localdomain>

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:08:27 +0300

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> >   CC      arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.o
> > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c: In function 'simeth_probe1':
> > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c:212: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open'
> 
> [PATCH] simeth: convert to net_device_ops
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

This doesn't explain the build failure.

Using ->open() and friends should work perfectly fine for drivers not
yet converted to netdev_ops.  The code protected by COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
provides this, and we force that Kconfig option to always be on.

I don't want to add this patch and just shrug off this build failure.
If this build failures, we should be seeing 200 other drivers not
build too.

I suspect something is messed up with this person's kernel config
or similar.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-10  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09 14:11 next-20081209: build problem at arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c Alexander Beregalov
2008-12-09 15:08 ` [PATCH] simnet: convert to net_device_ops Alexey Dobriyan
2008-12-10  6:57   ` David Miller [this message]
2008-12-10 11:21     ` Alexander Beregalov
2008-12-10 23:25       ` David Miller
2008-12-10 11:54     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-12-16  9:56   ` David Miller
2008-12-10  6:41 ` next-20081209: build problem at arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c David Miller

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