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2009-11-18drivers/net: request_irq - Remove unnecessary leading & from second argJoe Perches1-3/+3
Not as fancy as coccinelle. Checkpatch errors ignored. Compile tested allyesconfig x86, not all files compiled. grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] "\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*\&" drivers/net | while read file ; do \ perl -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s@(\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*)\&@\1@g ; print ; }' $file ;\ done Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-4/+1
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (42 commits) cxgb3: fix premature page unmap ibm_newemac: Fix EMACx_TRTR[TRT] bit shifts vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path gro: Fix illegal merging of trailer trash sungem: Fix Serdes detection. net: fix mdio section mismatch warning ppp: fix BUG on non-linear SKB (multilink receive) ixgbe: Fixing EEH handler to handle more than one error net: Fix the rollback test in dev_change_name() Revert "isdn: isdn_ppp: Use SKB list facilities instead of home-grown implementation." TI Davinci EMAC : Fix Console Hang when bringing the interface down smsc911x: Fix Console Hang when bringing the interface down. mISDN: fix error return in HFCmulti_init() forcedeth: mac address fix r6040: fix version printing Bluetooth: Fix regression with L2CAP configuration in Basic Mode Bluetooth: Select Basic Mode as default for SOCK_SEQPACKET Bluetooth: Set general bonding security for ACL by default r8169: Fix receive buffer length when MTU is between 1515 and 1536 can: add the missing netlink get_xstats_size callback ...
2009-11-15forcedeth: mac address fixStanislav O. Bezzubtsev1-4/+1
Use the existing random_ether_addr() to generate random MAC instead of doing it by-hand. Signed-off-by: Stanislav O. Bezzubtsev <stas@lvk.cs.msu.su> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-11headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.hAlexey Dobriyan1-0/+1
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current, it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k! Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-09-01netdev: convert bulk of drivers to netdev_tx_tStephen Hemminger1-2/+3
In a couple of cases collapse some extra code like: int retval = NETDEV_TX_OK; ... return retval; into return NETDEV_TX_OK; Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05forcedeth: Fix NAPI race.Eric Dumazet1-11/+14
Eric Dumazet a écrit : > Ingo Molnar a écrit : >>> The following changes since commit 52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7: >>> Linus Torvalds (1): >>> Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.6 >>> >>> are available in the git repository at: >>> >>> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git master >> Hm, something in this lot quickly wrecked networking here - see the >> tx timeout dump below. It starts with: >> >> [ 351.004596] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:246 dev_watchdog+0x10b/0x19c() >> [ 351.011815] Hardware name: System Product Name >> [ 351.016220] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (forcedeth): transmit queue 0 timed out >> >> Config attached. Unfortunately i've got no time to do bisection >> today. > > > > forcedeth might have a problem, in its netif_wake_queue() logic, but > I could not see why a recent patch could make this problem visible now. > > CPU0/1: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ stepping 02 > is not a new cpu either :) > > forcedeth uses an internal tx_stop without appropriate barrier. > > Could you try following patch ? > > (random guess as I dont have much time right now) We might have a race in napi_schedule(), leaving interrupts disabled forever. I cannot test this patch, I dont have the hardware... Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-18forcedeth: fix dma api mismatchesEric Dumazet1-19/+27
forcedeth doesnt use properly dma api in its tx completion path and in nv_loopback_test() pci_map_single() should be paired with pci_unmap_single() pci_map_page() should be paired with pci_unmap_page() forcedeth xmit path uses pci_map_single() & pci_map_page(), but tx completion path only uses pci_unmap_single() nv_loopback_test() uses pci_map_single() & pci_unmap_page() Add a dma_single field in struct nv_skb_map, and define a helper function nv_unmap_txskb Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> CC: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-07forcedeth: addition of new mcp89 device idAyaz Abdulla1-0/+4
This patch adds a new device id for mcp89 chipset. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-07forcedeth: remove device id macrosAyaz Abdulla1-115/+98
This patch removes the device id macros and instead uses the constants directly. The areas in which logic expressions where using the macros now instead use feature/workaround flags. No new functionality has been introduced in this patch, only clean up of flags and macros. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-03Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6David S. Miller1-2/+13
Conflicts: drivers/net/forcedeth.c
2009-06-02forcedeth: add phy_power_down parameter, leave phy powered up by default (v2)Ed Swierk1-2/+13
Add a phy_power_down parameter to forcedeth: set to 1 to power down the phy and disable the link when an interface goes down; set to 0 to always leave the phy powered up. The phy power state persists across reboots; Windows, some BIOSes, and older versions of Linux don't bother to power up the phy again, forcing users to remove all power to get the interface working (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13072). Leaving the phy powered on is the safest default behavior. Users accustomed to seeing the link state reflect the interface state and/or wanting to minimize power consumption can set phy_power_down=1 if compatibility with other OSes is not an issue. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-01forcedeth: add clock gating feature <resend>Ayaz Abdulla1-0/+23
This patch adds new logic to support a clock gating feature found on the latest set of chipsets. The clock gating is performed on the tx/rx engines when the link is disconnected. Clock gating helps in reducing power consumption. * modified based on comments from netdev Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-27forcedeth: tx timeout fixAyaz Abdulla1-10/+21
This patch fixes the tx_timeout() to properly handle the clean up of the tx ring. It also sets the tx put pointer back to the correct position to be in sync with HW. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-09forcedeth: Use napi_complete() not __napi_complete().David S. Miller1-2/+2
It's not enough that forcedeth's interrupts are disabled, local cpu interrupts have to unconditionally be off when we remove the device from the poll list. Based upon a crash report from Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>: WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:30 __list_add+0x89/0x90() Hardware name: list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (c06ea834), but was f70244c8. (prev=c06ea834). Modules linked in: w83627hf hwmon_vid i2c_nforce2 Pid: 1436, comm: portageq Not tainted 2.6.30-rc1 #1 Call Trace: [<c0129d73>] warn_slowpath+0x73/0xd0 [<c03c6008>] ? __kfree_skb+0x38/0x90 [<c03f9b06>] ? tcp_data_snd_check+0x26/0xe0 [<c03fd67f>] ? tcp_rcv_established+0x2bf/0x5e0 [<c040557a>] ? tcp_v4_rcv+0x47a/0x610 [<c014cebd>] ? print_lock_contention_bug+0x1d/0x110 [<c044a967>] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x50 [<c040564b>] ? tcp_v4_rcv+0x54b/0x610 [<c02d86f9>] __list_add+0x89/0x90 [<c03ccff9>] __napi_schedule+0x29/0x60 [<c036946d>] e1000_intr+0xbd/0x1a0 [<c015c5de>] handle_IRQ_event+0x3e/0x120 [<c015e190>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x60/0xd0 [<c0104fd4>] handle_irq+0x34/0x60 [<c015f748>] ? rcu_irq_enter+0x8/0x40 [<c0104b29>] do_IRQ+0x39/0xa0 [<c03c592c>] ? skb_release_head_state+0x2c/0x60 [<c01034ee>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34 [<c02d8601>] ? list_del+0x21/0x90 [<c014e54b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [<c03cd4da>] __napi_complete+0x1a/0x30 [<c0381971>] nv_napi_poll+0xd1/0x5c0 [<c014e54b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [<c03cd5f6>] net_rx_action+0x106/0x1b0 [<c012e8df>] __do_softirq+0x6f/0x100 [<c044a967>] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x50 [<c015e1b8>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x88/0xd0 [<c012e9cd>] do_softirq+0x5d/0x70 [<c012ebad>] irq_exit+0x7d/0xa0 [<c0104b32>] do_IRQ+0x42/0xa0 [<c012e9b7>] ? do_softirq+0x47/0x70 [<c01034ee>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-07dma-mapping: replace all DMA_39BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(39)Yang Hongyang1-2/+2
Replace all DMA_39BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(39) Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang<yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06forcedeth: Fix resume from hibernation regression.Ed Swierk1-0/+3
Reset phy state on resume, fixing a regression caused by powering down the phy on hibernate. Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: version bump to 64Ayaz Abdulla1-1/+1
This patch bumps up the version to 0.64 Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: fix irq clearing and napi spin lock changesAyaz Abdulla1-14/+4
This patch clears the irqstatus register with the exact same events it has read from it. Since the read-write operation is not atomic, a new irqstatus bit could have been set in between these operations and would then be cleared accidentally. Secondly, we now don't need any spin lock protection when scheduling/completing napi poll as the isr will not execute anymore (as we turn off all interrupts now). Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: performance changesAyaz Abdulla1-2/+2
This patch modifies the throughput mode poll settings to reduce the number of interrupts. This is only used by older hardware that need a timer irq in throughput mode. Secondly, this patch increases the default rx ring from 128 to 512. This drastically improves bandwidth utilization for small packets sizes i.e 512 bytes. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: add interrupt moderation logicAyaz Abdulla1-31/+106
This patch adds the logic to moderate the interrupts by changing the mode between throughput and poll. If there has been a large amount of time without any burst of network load, the code will transition to pure throughput mode (where each tx/rx/other will cause an interrupt). If bursts of network load occurs, it will transition to poll based mode to help reduce cpu utilization (it will not interrupt on each packet) while maintaining the optimum network bandwidth utilization. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: remove isr processing loopAyaz Abdulla1-147/+105
This patch is only a subset of changes so that it is easier to see the modifications. This patch removes the isr 'for' loop and shifts all the logic to account for new tab spacing. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: add new optimization modeAyaz Abdulla1-48/+57
A new optimization mode called Dynamic has been added. This will be mode where interrupt moderation logic will dynamically switch between pure throughput mode and poll based (called 'cpu') mode. Also, for newer chipsets, the timer irq is not needed for throughput mode. Secondly, since we are modifying the irqmask to change between modes, msix is not supported. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: napi - handle all processingAyaz Abdulla1-38/+60
The napi poll routine has been modified to handle all interrupt events and process them accordingly. Therefore, the ISR will now only schedule the napi poll and disable all interrupts instead of just disabling rx interrupt. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: add/modify tx done with limitAyaz Abdulla1-6/+14
There are two tx_done routines to handle tx completion processing. Both these functions now take in a limit value and return the amount of tx completions. This will be used by a future patch to determine the total amount of work done. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: remove overheadAyaz Abdulla1-32/+4
This patch removes unnecessary overhead code. Firstly, there is no nead to mask off unwanted interrupts as we will be checking against the irqmask field anyways. Secondly, there has been no value in last few years from detecting error or unknown interrupts. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: save irq events for napi processingAyaz Abdulla1-24/+23
This patch will save the irq events in the driver's context so that the napi routine knows which interrupts have occurred. Subsequent changes will be moving all interrupt processing into the napi poll routine. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: remove msix + napiAyaz Abdulla1-21/+5
This patch removes support for msix running in conjunction with napi. There has been reported issues regarding the behaviour of irqmask and generation of interrupts by the HW when in MSIX mode. When running napi, the driver is constantly turning off/on the irqmask. For the time being, I am going to disable it until I can root cause the issue. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: fix missing napi enable/disable callsAyaz Abdulla1-12/+26
This patch adds missing napi enable/disable calls. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-10forcedeth: fix stats version featureAyaz Abdulla1-6/+6
Newer versions of the stats feature would not encompass all older versions. This would result in only retreiving a subset of all available stats in HW. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-26forcedeth: fix non-constant printk warningsStephen Hemminger1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-1/+12
2009-02-16net: forcedeth: Fix wake-on-lan regressionTobias Diedrich1-1/+12
Commit f55c21fd9a92a444e55ad1ca4e4732d56661bf2e ("forcedeth: call restore mac addr in nv_shutdown path"), which was introduced to fix the regression tracked at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 causes the wake-on-lan mac to be reversed in the shutdown path. Apparently the forcedeth situation is rather messy in that the mac we need to writeback for a subsequent modprobe to work is exactly the reverse of what is needed for proper wake-on-lan. The following patch explains the situation in the comments and makes the call to nv_restore_mac_addr() conditional (only called if we are not really going for poweroff). Tobias Diedrich wrote: > Hmm, I had not tried WOL for some time. > With 2.6.29-rc3 is see the following behaviour: > > State WOL Behaviour > ------------------------------ > shutdown reversed MAC > disk/shutdown reversed MAC > disk/platform OK > > Apparently nv_restore_mac_addr() restores the MAC in the wrong order > for WOL (at least for my PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_15). platform > works, because the MAC is not touched in the nv_suspend() path. > > A possible fix might be to only call nv_restore_mac_addr() if > system_state != SYSTEM_POWER_OFF. With the following patch: shutdown OK disk/shutdown OK disk/platform OK kexec OK Signed-off-by: Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de> Tested-by: Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@titan.lahn.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07forcedeth: bump version to 63Ayaz Abdulla1-1/+1
This patch bumps the version up to 63 Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07forcedeth: recover error supportAyaz Abdulla1-3/+10
This patch adds another type of recoverable error to the driver. It also modifies the sequence for recovery to include a mac reset and clearing of interrupts. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07forcedeth: ethtool tx csum fixAyaz Abdulla1-1/+1
This patch fixes the ethtool tx csum "set" command. A recent patch was submitted to remove HW_CSUM and use IP_CSUM instead. Therefore, the corresponding ethtool command should also be modified. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07forcedeth: msi interrupt fixAyaz Abdulla1-0/+5
This patch fixes an issue with the suspend/resume cycle with msi interrupts. See bugzilla number 10487 for more details. The fix is to re-setup a private msi pci config offset field. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-07forcedeth: mgmt unit interfaceAyaz Abdulla1-16/+82
This patch updates the logic used to communicate with the mgmt unit. It also adds a version check for a newer mgmt unit firmware. * Fixed udelay to schedule_timeout_uninterruptible Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06forcedeth: enable msix to defaultYinghai Lu1-1/+1
Impact: change default msix and napic can work again Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06forcedeth: ck804 and mcp55 doesn't need timerirqYinghai Lu1-4/+4
Impact: cleanup so get less irq. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06forcedeth: disable irq at first before schedule rxYinghai Lu1-2/+2
Impact: clean up schedule it later after disable it. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06forcedeth: don't clear nic_poll_irq too earlyYinghai Lu1-3/+5
Impact: fix bug for msix, we still need that flag to enable irq respectively Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-06forcedeth: make msi-x different name for rx-txYinghai Lu1-3/+14
Impact: make /proc/interrupts could show more info which irq is rx or other for msi-x add three name fields for rx, tx, other Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-21net: Remove redundant NAPI functionsBen Hutchings1-5/+5
Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are therefore redundant. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11forcedeth: napi schedule lock fixAyaz Abdulla1-2/+2
This patch fixes a potential race condition between scheduling napi and completing napi poll. The call to netif_rx_schedule should be under protection of the lock (as is the completion), otherwise, interrupts could be masked off. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11forcedeth: remove mgmt unit for mcp79 chipsetAyaz Abdulla1-4/+4
This patch removes the feature flag for mgmt unit as it is not used for this chipset. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11forcedeth: version bump and copyrightAyaz Abdulla1-2/+2
This patch bumps up the version number and adds current year to copyright. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11forcedeth: xmit lock fixAyaz Abdulla1-2/+4
This patch fixes a potential race condition between xmit thread and xmit completion thread. The calculation of empty tx descriptors is not performed under the lock. This could cause it to set the stop flag while the completion thread finishes all tx's. This will result in the tx queue in stopped state and no one to wake it up. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-25forcedeth: don't poll NV event 36Johannes Berg1-1/+1
Polling doesn't seem to be necessary on my hardware, at least I haven't seen any bad effects testing it a while. Remove the polling so the CPU doesn't have to wake up a hundred times per second. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-22net: Remove unused netdev arg from some NAPI interfaces.Neil Horman1-5/+5
When the napi api was changed to separate its 1:1 binding to the net_device struct, the netif_rx_[prep|schedule|complete] api failed to remove the now vestigual net_device structure parameter. This patch cleans up that api by properly removing it.. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-12-08netdevice: Kill netdev->privWang Chen1-2/+2
This is the last shoot of this series. After I removing all directly reference of netdev->priv, I am killing "priv" of "struct net_device" and fixing relative comments/docs. Anyone will not be allowed to reference netdev->priv directly. If you want to reference the memory of private data, use netdev_priv() instead. If the private data is not allocted when alloc_netdev(), use netdev->ml_priv to point that memory after you creating that private data. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>