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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:29:39 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Subject: [Patch net-next] netpoll: add RCU annotation to npinfo field

From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>

dev->npinfo is protected by RCU.

This fixes the following sparse warnings:

net/core/netpoll.c:177:48: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
net/core/netpoll.c:200:35: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
net/core/netpoll.c:221:35: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
net/core/netpoll.c:327:18: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>

---
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 549f5ad..85b0949 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ struct net_device {
 	void (*destructor)(struct net_device *dev);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL
-	struct netpoll_info	*npinfo;
+	struct netpoll_info __rcu	*npinfo;
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
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