Subject: RE: [PATCH] [V3] net: add Xilinx emac lite device driver

From: John Linn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 07:33:18 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:49 PM
> To: John Linn
> Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked];
[email-masked]; [email-masked]; John
> Linn; [email-masked]; Josh Boyer; John Williams; Michal
Simek; Sadanand Mutyala
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] [V3] net: add Xilinx emac lite device driver
> 
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:49:51 -0600
> John Linn <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > +/**
> > + * xemaclite_ioctl - Perform IO Control operations on the network
device
> > + * @dev:	Pointer to the network device
> > + * @rq:		Pointer to the interface request structure
> > + * @cmd:	IOCTL command
> > + *
> > + * The only IOCTL operation supported by this function is setting
the MAC
> > + * address. An error is reported if any other operations are
requested.
> > + *
> > + * Return:	0 to indicate success, or a negative error for failure.
> > + */
> > +static int xemaclite_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq
*rq, int cmd)
> > +{
> > +	struct net_local *lp = (struct net_local *) netdev_priv(dev);
> > +	struct hw_addr_data *hw_addr = (struct hw_addr_data *)
&rq->ifr_hwaddr;
> > +
> > +	switch (cmd) {
> > +	case SIOCETHTOOL:
> > +		return -EIO;
> > +
> > +	case SIOCSIFHWADDR:
> > +		dev_err(&lp->ndev->dev, "SIOCSIFHWADDR\n");
> > +
> > +		/* Copy MAC address in from user space */
> > +		copy_from_user((void __force *) dev->dev_addr,
> > +			       (void __user __force *) hw_addr,
> > +			       IFHWADDRLEN);
> > +		xemaclite_set_mac_address(lp, dev->dev_addr);
> > +		break;
> > +	default:
> > +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> Do you really need this? I doubt the SIOCSIFHWADDR even reaches
driver!
> 
> The normal call path for setting hardware address is:
>   dev_ifsioc
>          dev_set_mac_address
>              ops->ndo_set_mac_address -->
> 
> The driver should be:
>    1. defining new code to do ndo_set_mac_address
>    2. remove existing xmaclite_ioctl - all ioctl's handled by upper
layers
> 
> FYI - the only ioctl's that make it to network device ndo_ioctl
>  are listed in dev_ifsioc
>    SIOCDEVPRIVATE ... SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15
>    SIOCBOND*
>    SIOCMII*
>    SIOCBR*
>    SIOCHWTSTAMP
>    SIOCWANDEV
> 
> 

We agree and will be updating the driver for this change. Sorry about
the delay as I was on vacation.

Thanks,
John

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