From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rndis_wlan netdev ops
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090323140057.0f05c103@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090323.134318.106371116.davem@davemloft.net>
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> This is the only driver that won't build for me with
> the netdev ops compat option disabled.
>
> It's trying to override the ->set_mutlicast_list op value
> of it's parent device.
>
> Did you hit this one and I just missed it or is it not handled
> yet?
yes, that is when I stopped. Mainly because it was a non-trivial
fix.
> Probably what we'll have to do for this case is allocate a
> netdev_ops copy so that the ->set_multicast_list can be set
> to a new value. But that defeats the whole purpose of netdev
> ops so I assume you have other plans :-)
Why not just turn off the multicast bit in the device, or maybe
the hardware developer can implement set_multicast_list
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 20:43 rndis_wlan netdev ops David Miller
2009-03-23 21:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-03-23 21:31 ` David Miller
2009-03-25 7:04 ` David Miller
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