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

From: Igor Mitsyanko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:43:18 -0700

On 06/07/2017 07:27 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> 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")
> 
> 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.

Hi Stephen,
thanks. As I understand, you've applied this patch during a merge and no 
further actions are required, correct?

> 
> 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]>

Acked-by: Igor Mitsyanko <[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
>