netdev - Re: New sparse warning in net/mac80211/debugfs

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Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:47:20 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	joe@...ches.com, johannes@...solutions.net,
	harvey.harrison@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New sparse warning in net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c

David Miller wrote:
> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:00:03 +0100
>
>   
>> And adds back the overhead of two completely unnecessary
>> function calls to the VLAN fastpath. How about just
>> stopping this idiocy and reverting the appropriate patches
>> to bring back MAC_FMT and use it where appropriate?
>>     
>
> Agreed, I'll do that.
>   

It would be good if Joe could go through the remaining print_mac users
and convert the remaining unintended function calls in fastpaths back
to MAC_FMT. Grepping for "start_xmit" in commit 0795af5729b shows that
at least 10 hard_start_xmit functions are affected and I expect that
some of the changes in the wireless code affect fastpaths as well.


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