On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:07:17PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Fix sparse warnings and get rid of casts that hide misuse
> of __user pointers.  There were two real bugs here:
>   * ioctl was copying uninitialized stack om NETXEN_NIC_NAME
>   * ioctl was dereferencing a user pointer
>     in nettxen_nic_cmd_clear_stats.
> 
> IMHO the ioctl usage in this driver is going to be more maintenance
> burden than useful. and should be removed.

Yes, please send a patch to kill the ioctls.  Given all the other mess
in the driver I really wonder who ACKed it going in.

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