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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:54:50 -0800
From: Alessandro Salvatori <sandr8@...il.com>
To: Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy@...pl>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmxnet3 driver broken since 3.0?
I guess this is the change that was introduced in 3.0 and that breaks vmxnet3:
commit 55513fb4281464e97aa1ff2b9c906ca5aed917c5
Author: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.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@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.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-
Here i am, A young man,
A crashing computer program,
Here is a pen, write out my name...
(from: The Servant - Orchestra)
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 14:38, Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy@...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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