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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] bond: Implement a basic set of rtnl link ops
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:23:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1eiols0a4.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEAA403.7080204@trash.net> (Patrick McHardy's message of "Fri\, 30 Oct 2009 09\:29\:55 +0100")

Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> +static struct rtnl_link_ops bond_link_ops __read_mostly = {
>> +	.kind		= "bond",
>> +	.setup		= bond_setup,
>> +	.validate	= bond_validate,
>> +};
>
> One more thing - you need to initialize .priv_size here so
> the devices created through rtnl_link have enough private
> room allocated.

Wow and the code works when I test it without that ouch!

As for rtnl_link_register it always succeeds so let's just
remove the return code and call it good.

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-30  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-30  0:16 [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] net: Allow devices to specify a device specific sysfs group Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] bond: Simply bond sysfs group creation Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] bond: Simplify bond_create Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] bond: Simplify bond device destruction Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] bond: Implement a basic set of rtnl link ops Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  8:06   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-30  8:29   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-30  9:23     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-10-30  9:33       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-30  9:58         ` [PATCH 7/6] bond: Get the rtnl_link_ops support correct Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 10:00         ` [PATCH 5/6] bond: Implement a basic set of rtnl link ops Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 10:08           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-10-30  0:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] bond: Add support for multiple network namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30  6:25 ` [PATCH 0/6] Bonding simplifications and netns support David Miller
2009-10-30  6:38   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-30  6:40     ` David Miller
2009-10-30  7:50   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 10:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-30 19:41 ` David Miller
2009-10-30 21:12   ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-10-30 22:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-31  0:10       ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-10-31  1:06         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-31  1:45           ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-10-31  0:27     ` Eric W. Biederman

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