netdev - Re: [Patch] Micrel KS8695 intergrated ethernet driver

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Message-Id: <20081208.122914.97675406.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:29:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	dsilvers@...tec.co.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Micrel KS8695 intergrated ethernet driver

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:17:53 +0000

> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 11:05 +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> [...]
> > > > +static inline struct ks8695_priv *
> > > > +ks8695_get_priv(struct net_device *ndev)
> > > Don't use ndev->priv, use netdev_priv(ndev).  Which makes this function
> > > redundant, except for the implicit pointer conversion.
> > 
> > Aah, I didn't know about that one, updated.
> 
> Until recently they have been equivalent by default; direct access to
> priv is now deprecated and it will be removed.

Not just "will be removed", but "is removed" in the current
net-next-2.6 tree so this driver wouldn't even compile :-)
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