From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:00:32 +0000 > 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: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- 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
