linux-kernel - Re: {painfully BISECTED} Please revert f25c80a4b2: arch/um/drivers: remove duplicate structure field initialization

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:08:35 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bharrosh@...asas.com, julia@...u.dk,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: {painfully BISECTED} Please revert f25c80a4b2: arch/um/drivers:
 remove duplicate structure field initialization

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:57:04 -0700
>
>> So perhaps something like the attached patch would make it work, and
>> have the locking in place that apparently people think it should have?
>
> I'm fine with this if it works:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

And you can add my sign-off to it if somebody tests it.

It does look like the obvious fix. The "wrapper" is simply totally
wrong as-is, and passes the wrong thing entirely to eth_mac_addr()
afaik.

                Linus
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