Re: vmxnet3 driver broken since 3.0?

[Alessandro Salvatori <sandr8@gmail.com>]

I guess this is the change that was introduced in 3.0 and that breaks vmxnet3:

commit 55513fb4281464e97aa1ff2b9c906ca5aed917c5
Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 18 17:55:58 2010 +0000

    net: fail alloc_netdev_mq if queue count < 1

    In alloc_netdev_mq fail if requested queue_count < 1.

    Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
    Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 04972a4..f44d29a 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5511,6 +5511,12 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int
sizeof_priv, const char *name,

        BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= sizeof(dev->name));

+       if (queue_count < 1) {
+               pr_err("alloc_netdev: Unable to allocate device "
+                      "with zero queues.\n");
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        alloc_size = sizeof(struct net_device);
        if (sizeof_priv) {
                /* ensure 32-byte alignment of private area */

thanks!
-Alessandro-
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On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 14:38, Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy@o2.pl> wrote:
> Alessandro Salvatori <sandr8 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> haven't had a chance to try the one from the 3.2 release candidates yet.
>
> In 3.2-rc5 is still broken. Exactly the same error you get. :(
> Someone introduced a change since kernel 3.0 which broke vmxnet3 driver. And
> this breaking change continues in kernel 3.1 and 3.2-rc5 so it seems it will not
> go away. :(
>
> have a nice day,
> Zbigniew Luszpinski
>
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