On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:57:28PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:08:27 +0300 > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote: > > > CC arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.o > > > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c: In function 'simeth_probe1': > > > arch/ia64/hp/sim/simeth.c:212: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open' > > > > [PATCH] simeth: convert to net_device_ops > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> > > This doesn't explain the build failure. I triggered it manually. And most certainly forgot .ndo_validate_addr, so patch needs resend anyway. > Using ->open() and friends should work perfectly fine for drivers not > yet converted to netdev_ops. The code protected by COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS > provides this, and we force that Kconfig option to always be on. > > I don't want to add this patch and just shrug off this build failure. > If this build failures, we should be seeing 200 other drivers not > build too. > > I suspect something is messed up with this person's kernel config > or similar. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
