Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the wireless-drivers-next tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:00:24 +1000

Hi Dave,

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:27:59 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> After merging the wireless-drivers-next tree, today's linux-next build
> (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this:
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c: In function 'qtnf_core_net_attach':
> drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c:319:5: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'destructor'
>   dev->destructor = free_netdev;
>      ^
> 
> Caused by commit
> 
>   98f44cb0655c ("qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets")

This commit is now in the net-next tree ...

> interacting with commit
> 
>   cf124db566e6 ("net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.")
> 
> from the net tree.
> 
> I applied this merge fix patch for today.

So this merge fix patch is needed when the net and net-next trees are merged.

> From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 12:24:08 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] qtnfmac: fix up for "net: Fix inconsistent teardown and
>  release of private netdev state."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c
> index c5ac252464f4..f053532c0e87 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c
> @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ int qtnf_core_net_attach(struct qtnf_wmac *mac, struct qtnf_vif *vif,
>  	vif->netdev = dev;
>  
>  	dev->netdev_ops = &qtnf_netdev_ops;
> -	dev->destructor = free_netdev;
> +	dev->needs_free_netdev = true;
>  	dev_net_set(dev, wiphy_net(wiphy));
>  	dev->ieee80211_ptr = &vif->wdev;
>  	dev->ieee80211_ptr->iftype = iftype;
> -- 
> 2.11.0

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell