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[next] infiniband: Kill directly reference of netdev->priv

Message ID 492A748F.9040308@cn.fujitsu.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Wang Chen Nov. 24, 2008, 9:31 a.m. UTC 
This use of netdev->priv is wrong.
The right way is:
alloc_netdev() with no memory for private data.
make netdev->ml_priv to point to c2_dev.

I am doing this kind of work for net-next tree.
So I send this patch to Dave, although infiniband's maintainer is
not him.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Roland Dreier Nov. 24, 2008, 5:01 p.m. UTC | #1 
Looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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David Miller Nov. 24, 2008, 11:34 p.m. UTC | #2 
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:01:28 -0800

> Looks fine to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c
index 69580e2..5119d65 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@  static int c2_service_destroy(struct iw_cm_id *cm_id)
 static int c2_pseudo_up(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct in_device *ind;
-	struct c2_dev *c2dev = netdev->priv;
+	struct c2_dev *c2dev = netdev->ml_priv;
 
 	ind = in_dev_get(netdev);
 	if (!ind)
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@  static int c2_pseudo_up(struct net_device *netdev)
 static int c2_pseudo_down(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct in_device *ind;
-	struct c2_dev *c2dev = netdev->priv;
+	struct c2_dev *c2dev = netdev->ml_priv;
 
 	ind = in_dev_get(netdev);
 	if (!ind)
@@ -746,14 +746,14 @@  static struct net_device *c2_pseudo_netdev_init(struct c2_dev *c2dev)
 	/* change ethxxx to iwxxx */
 	strcpy(name, "iw");
 	strcat(name, &c2dev->netdev->name[3]);
-	netdev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(*netdev), name, setup);
+	netdev = alloc_netdev(0, name, setup);
 	if (!netdev) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR PFX "%s -  etherdev alloc failed",
 			__func__);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	netdev->priv = c2dev;
+	netdev->ml_priv = c2dev;
 
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &c2dev->pcidev->dev);