netdev - Re: [patch v2] net/usb: remove err() messages in few drivers

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:25:38 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	"Alexey Klimov" <klimov.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] net/usb: remove err() messages in few drivers

Am Tuesday 13 January 2009 09:57:12 schrieb Alexey Klimov:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:

> > I have to veto this. You are using three different device structures
> > to refer to the same device. That will make it next to impossible to
> > find out which device originated a message.
> >
> Ok, i'll reformat patch. Is it okay if i use kaweth->dev->dev,
> kaweth->net->dev and intf->dev ? Or switch to kaweth->net->dev
> (instead of dev->dev)?

kaweth in kaweth_disconnect() frees the network device. Therefore
you cannot use it. You'd access freed memory. Pick one of the others
and stay with it.

	Regards
		Oliver


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