netdev - Re: [PATCH] ioc3-eth: store pointer to net

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Date:   Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     Jason@...c4.com
Cc:     ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioc3-eth: store pointer to net_device for priviate area

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:00:32 +0200

> Computing the alignment manually for going from priv to pub is probably
> not such a good idea, and in general the assumption that going from priv
> to pub is possible trivially could change, so rather than relying on
> that, we change things to just store a pointer to pub. This was sugested
> by DaveM in [1].
> 
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg443992.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>

Applied.