On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>
> Replacing accesses to dev->priv to netdev_priv(dev). The replacment
> is safe when netdev_priv is used to access a private structure that is
> right next to the net_device structure in memory. Cf
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/browse_thread/thread/de19321bcd94dbb8/0d74a4adcd6177bd
> This is the case when the net_device structure was allocated with
> a call to alloc_netdev or one of its derivative.
NAK.
While that assumption is correct for the actual emac net device, it's
not for MAL poll one.
You patch breaks a working driver.
--
Eugene
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