netdev - Re: [PATCH next] staging-p80211: Kill directly reference of netdev->priv

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Message-Id: <20081206.235846.265588494.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:58:46 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] staging-p80211: Kill directly reference of
 netdev->priv

From: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:14:53 +0800

> In this driver, netdev's private data is wlandevice_t.
> And the wlandev(type of wlandevice_t) is exist before netdev be allocated.
> So use netdev->ml_priv to point to the private data.
> 
> I am not sure whether I should consider the kernel version older than 2.3.38.
> Because in those kernels, netdevice_t is "structure dev" instead of 
> "structure net_device" and of course "dev->ml_priv" will cause compile error.
> But before my patch, in function wlan_setup(), there is a ether_setup(net_device)
> which already broke kernels which older than 2.3.38.
> 
> Compile test only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>

Applied.
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