netdev - Re: Yet more fixes to etherh.c

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Date:	Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:19:47 +0000
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: Yet more fixes to etherh.c

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:44:48PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:36:33 +0000
> 
> > Further to a71558d, this is round five of fixes to make etherh work
> > again. As mainline kernels stand, the fixes in b9a9b4b were the wrong
> > approach.
>  ...
> > Fix up b9a9b4b by making etherh's net_device_ops refer to the internal
> > lib8390 functions, and remove the build of the ISA 8390.c driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> 
> Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Russell.
> 
> You mention this as a fix against mainline, but your patch
> only applied to net-next-2.6 because the "eth_set_mac_addr"
> fix to this driver only exists there.

Hmm, I don't see the problem.  What's currently in mainline is:

        .ndo_set_mac_address    = eth_mac_addr,

which is what's in the context lines of this patch.  I pushed this
myself in a71558d.

> Let me know if you want me to propagate both changes to net-2.6
> and push to Linus.

Definitely, these patches are fixing regressions, so should be submitted
to Linus for 2.6.29.
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