From: Mikko Vinni <mmvinni@yahoo.com>
To: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: br2684: convert to net_device_ops broke it
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 13:02:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <907051.51698.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090502134605.GA11168@debian>
Rabin Vincent wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 02:04:21AM -0700, Mikko Vinni wrote:
> > my ADSL connection works well with kernel 2.6.29, but since commit
> > 0ba25ff4c669e5395110ba6ab4958a97a9f96922 (br2684: convert to net_device_ops)
> > entered the mainline using br2684ctl fails with the following bug:
> [..]
> > I'll be glad to test any patches.
>
> Please try the one below.
Yes, that fixes it. Good job and thank you!
Mikko
>
> Rabin
>
> From 9f767672d3362bb07fb1d8764b0d26312eb2bb96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rabin Vincent
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 18:44:28 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] br2684: restore net_dev initialization
>
> Commit 0ba25ff4c669e5395110ba6ab4958a97a9f96922 ("br2684: convert to
> net_device_ops") inadvertently deleted the initialization of the net_dev
> pointer in the br2684_dev structure, leading to crashes. This patch
> adds it back.
>
> Reported-by: Mikko Vinni
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent
> ---
> net/atm/br2684.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/atm/br2684.c b/net/atm/br2684.c
> index 334fcd4..3100a89 100644
> --- a/net/atm/br2684.c
> +++ b/net/atm/br2684.c
> @@ -549,6 +549,7 @@ static void br2684_setup(struct net_device *netdev)
> struct br2684_dev *brdev = BRPRIV(netdev);
>
> ether_setup(netdev);
> + brdev->net_dev = netdev;
>
> netdev->netdev_ops = &br2684_netdev_ops;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-02 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-02 9:04 br2684: convert to net_device_ops broke it Mikko Vinni
2009-05-02 13:46 ` Rabin Vincent
2009-05-02 20:02 ` Mikko Vinni [this message]
2009-05-02 20:49 ` David Miller
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