netdev - Re: [PATCH] simnet: convert to net_device

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Message-ID: <20081210115417.GC20973@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:54:17 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	a.beregalov@...il.com, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] simnet: convert to net_device_ops

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:57:28PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:08:27 +0300
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> > >   CC      arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.o
> > > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c: In function 'simeth_probe1':
> > > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c:212: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open'
> > 
> > [PATCH] simeth: convert to net_device_ops
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> 
> This doesn't explain the build failure.

I triggered it manually.

And most certainly forgot .ndo_validate_addr, so patch needs resend anyway.

> Using ->open() and friends should work perfectly fine for drivers not
> yet converted to netdev_ops.  The code protected by COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
> provides this, and we force that Kconfig option to always be on.
> 
> I don't want to add this patch and just shrug off this build failure.
> If this build failures, we should be seeing 200 other drivers not
> build too.
> 
> I suspect something is messed up with this person's kernel config
> or similar.
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