2007-06-08 07:54:52

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [patch 17/54] ieee1394: eth1394: bring back a parent device

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Stefan Richter <[email protected]>

This adds a real parent device to eth1394's ethX device like in Linux
2.6.20 and older. However, due to unfinished conversion of the ieee1394
away from class_device, we now refer to the FireWire controller's PCI
device as the parent, not to the ieee1394 driver's fw-host device.

Having a real parent device instead of a virtual one allows udev scripts
to distinguish eth1394 interfaces from networking bridges, bondings and
the likes.

Fixes a regression since 2.6.21:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177199

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Same as commit ef50a6c59dc66f22eba67704e291d709f21e0456.

drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c
+++ linux-2.6.21.4/drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c
@@ -584,10 +584,9 @@ static void ether1394_add_host (struct h
}

SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
-#if 0
- /* FIXME - Is this the correct parent device anyway? */
- SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &host->device);
-#endif
+
+ /* This used to be &host->device in Linux 2.6.20 and before. */
+ SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, host->device.parent);

priv = netdev_priv(dev);


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