linux-kernel - Re: D-Link DFE-580TX and snmpd problems, who's maintainer of sundance.c ?

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:46:50 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Volker Sauer <vsauer@....tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, adi@...tpi.com,
	Jesse Huang <jesse@...lus.com.tw>
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-580TX and snmpd problems, who's maintainer of
	sundance.c ?

Volker Sauer <vsauer@....tu-darmstadt.de> :
[...]
> I'm neither a skilled C-programmer nor a kernel-expert, but looking at
> drivers/net/sundance.c:1605 I see, that SIOCDEVPRIVATE does
> nothing else then printing this debug message.

Yuck.

> So the questions is: why? What is this good for?
> And: can I remove it? I can not abandon snmpd and the messages spam my
> syslog.
> Or: do I have to patch snmpd?

Please try the attached patch.

[...]
> P.S.: there's no one in the MAINTAINERS file for sundance.c. Is someone
> here who still cares about this driver?

Please Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org on further replies, thanks.

-- 
Ueimor

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