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Message-Id: <20090503.141524.253766195.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 03 May 2009 14:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rbrito@....usp.br
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops

From: Rogério Brito <rbrito@....usp.br>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 08:48:20 -0300

> I hope that this version is a slightly better fix to convert mace to
> netdev_ops.
> 
> This is against this morning's net-2.6 tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <rbrito@....usp.br>

I'll apply this, thanks!  I made one change however.

> @@ -798,6 +807,13 @@ static irqreturn_t mace_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
>      return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * In the following, the parameter "data" is treated like a pointer,
> + * which is probably OK for 32 bit arches, but not for 64.
> + *
> + * (Are mace's found on any newer machines??) -- rbrito
> + *
> + */
>  static void mace_tx_timeout(unsigned long data)
>  {
>      struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) data;

I left this new comment out, as this is a common idiom (passing opaque
data as an 'unsigned long' argument to a callback) and casting it to a
pointer.

It also works perfectly fine on all 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
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