netdev - Re: rndis_wlan netdev ops

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Message-ID: <20090323140057.0f05c103@nehalam>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:00:57 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rndis_wlan netdev ops

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> 
> This is the only driver that won't build for me with
> the netdev ops compat option disabled.
> 
> It's trying to override the ->set_mutlicast_list op value
> of it's parent device.
> 
> Did you hit this one and I just missed it or is it not handled
> yet?

yes, that is when I stopped. Mainly because it was a non-trivial
fix.

> Probably what we'll have to do for this case is allocate a
> netdev_ops copy so that the ->set_multicast_list can be set
> to a new value.  But that defeats the whole purpose of netdev
> ops so I assume you have other plans :-)

Why not just turn off the multicast bit in the device, or maybe
the hardware developer can implement set_multicast_list
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