netdev - Re: Suspected Copy Paste error in rtnl_bridge

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Message-Id: <20140206.194503.1975815381717889886.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:45:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tj@...nel.org
Cc:	yogeshgaur.83@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspected Copy Paste error in rtnl_bridge_notify

From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:47:12 -0500

>> In above code isn't code line:
>> err = br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, dev, 0);
>> should be
>> err = br_dev->netdev_ops->ndo_bridge_getlink(skb, 0, 0, br_dev, 0);
>> 
>> If this needs to be changed then please review attached patch adding this
>> change.

It's not a typo, we want the actual underlying physical device.

Look at the implementations such as drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/be_main.c:
be_ndo_bridge_netlink().  It's doing things like:

	struct be_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(dev);
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