Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: convert mace to netdev_ops

From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:42:58 -0700 (PDT)

From: Rogério Brito <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:16:33 -0300

> Is this anything close to what needs to be done? It's not without
> failures, because the function mace_set_timeout receives a pointer to a
> struct net_device, but is marked inline and is used by mace_tx_timeout,
> which receives an unsigned long (which calls mace_set_timeout).
> 
> Perhaps it would be a case of removing the inline hint to the compiler?
> I guess that BenH or Paul could comment here better...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito <[email-masked]>

You can fix the mace_set_timeout() function arguments by having
a helper function that simply wraps around it and provides the
second expection of argument types.

Your patch is also wrong, it's missing a lot of netdev_ops
entries that are implicitly obtained via alloc_etherdev(),
namely:

	.ndo_change_mtu		= eth_change_mtu,
	.ndo_set_mac_address 	= eth_mac_addr,
	.ndo_validate_addr	= eth_validate_addr,