On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 10:19 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > Since: > > commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81 > Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000 > > net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops > > wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops. > > After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own > ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic > cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call: > > if (!dev->ethtool_ops) > dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops; > > But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211 > drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops. > > In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite > default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This will work nicely, clearly I didn't understand davem's suggestion :) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
