Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net, wireless: overwrite default_ethtool_ops

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:51:47 +0100

On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 10:19 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> Since:
> 
> commit 2c60db037034d27f8c636403355d52872da92f81
> Author: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Sun Sep 16 09:17:26 2012 +0000
> 
>     net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops
> 
> wireless core does not correctly assign ethtool_ops.
> 
> After alloc_netdev*() call, some cfg80211 drivers provide they own
> ethtool_ops, but some do not. For them, wireless core provide generic
> cfg80211_ethtool_ops, which is assigned in NETDEV_REGISTER notify call:
> 
>         if (!dev->ethtool_ops)
>                 dev->ethtool_ops = &cfg80211_ethtool_ops;
> 
> But after Eric's commit, dev->ethtool_ops is no longer NULL (on cfg80211
> drivers without custom ethtool_ops), but points to &default_ethtool_ops.
> 
> In order to fix the problem, provide function which will overwrite
> default_ethtool_ops and use it by wireless core.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>

This will work nicely, clearly I didn't understand davem's suggestion :)

johannes