netdev - a couple questions about drivers/net/macv*.c

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Date:	Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:44:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: a couple questions about drivers/net/macv*.c

  first (trivial) point, i notice that both macvlan.c and macvtap.c
are still both listed as EXPERIMENTAL -- is that still accurate?

  bigger issue in macvtap.c -- notice this declaration:

static unsigned int macvtap_major;

that seems like a violation of coding style since that variable is
used later on in:

        devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(macvtap_major), dev->ifindex);
 and

       err = alloc_chrdev_region(&macvtap_major, 0,
                                MACVTAP_NUM_DEVS, "macvtap");

where its type should simply be the typedef "dev_t" for transparency,
should it not?  hardcoding that variable as an unsigned int seems like
a bad idea.

rday

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