On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 00:30 +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
> Hi, list
>
> I am porting an ethernet driver from 2.6.x to 3.7.1. I found in the new
> kernel, the ndo_set_multicast_list method in the net_device_ops had been
> removed. What's the story behind? Can I simply ignore this method
> defined in an old driver?
>
> Please also help to check the below code, is the list of the operations
> defined for my driver enough or not?
>
> const struct net_device_ops ax_netdev_ops = {
> .ndo_open = mydriver_open,
> .ndo_stop = mydriver_close,
> .ndo_start_xmit = mydriver_start_xmit,
> .ndo_get_stats = mydriver_get_stats,
> /*.ndo_set_multicast_list = mydriver_set_multicast_list,*/
> .ndo_set_mac_address = mydriver_set_mac_address,
> };
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Take a look at :
commit afc4b13df143122f99a0eb10bfefb216c2806de0
Author: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 16 06:29:01 2011 +0000
net: remove use of ndo_set_multicast_list in drivers
replace it by ndo_set_rx_mode
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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