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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html