Hi Kurt,
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:25:07PM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
> can: export a safe netdev_priv wrapper for candev
>
> In net_device notifier calls, it was impossible to determine
> if a CAN device is based on candev in a safe way.
> This patch adds such test in order to access candev storage
> from within those notifiers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.di...@eia.be>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/dev.c b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> index 963e2cc..6c1e704 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/dev.c
> @@ -795,6 +795,18 @@ void unregister_candev(struct net_device *dev)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_candev);
>
> +/*
> + * Test if a network device is a candev based device
> + * and return the can_priv* if so.
> + */
> +struct can_priv *safe_candev_priv(struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + if ((dev->type != ARPHRD_CAN) || (dev->rtnl_link_ops != &can_link_ops))
> + return NULL;
> +
> + return netdev_priv(dev);
> +}
> +
No EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here?
Looks good to me a part from that.
Fabio
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Fabio Baltieri
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