netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:07:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	randy.dunlap@...cle.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, sgruszka@...hat.com,
	amit.salecha@...gic.com, amwang@...hat.com,
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	jgarzik@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set_flags
 to validate flags

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:55:14 -0700

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:32 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ int ethtool_op_set_tso(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
>>  u32 ethtool_op_get_ufo(struct net_device *dev);
>>  int ethtool_op_set_ufo(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
>>  u32 ethtool_op_get_flags(struct net_device *dev);
>> -int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 data);
>> +int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 data, u32 supported);
> 
> That one-line change is missing from linux-next-20100702, causing:
> 
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ethtool.c:157: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Strange, it's in net-next-2.6 for sure:

davem@...set:~/src/GIT/net-next-2.6$ egrep ethtool_op_set_flags include/linux/ethtool.h
int ethtool_op_set_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 data, u32 supported);
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