On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:53:25 -0700, you wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 09:33:31AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > > What am I missing here?
> >
> > The dev->name of any irtty device is truncated to
> > "irda".
Why? What's truncating it?
>> Check by yourself with an ifconfig. The trouble is that you
> > can't have 2 irtty active at the same time.
I have no problem with this! Are you sure you have a clean
patch? My patch is removing _all_ the memsets from the
patch, so there should be no problems at all!
[root@dag-laptop dagb]# ifconfig
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 97:ba:6e:0a
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:16790 errors:18 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:18
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
irda1 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 97:ba:6e:0aea:79:10:50
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
> right. Just replace the contentious line with :
> ------------------------------------------
> /* dev_alloc doesn't clear the struct */
> memset(((__u8*)dev)+sizeof(dev->name),0,sizeof(struct
>net_device)-sizeof(dev->name));
> ------------------------------------------
> This is much more readable, and this way, whatever the
> definition of dev->name become, we will do the right thing. And it's
> compatible for both 2.2 and 2.4. Magic !
I still don't see why we should clear the struct in 2.4 when it's
already done by dev_alloc(). What if they insert something before
the name?
> Jean
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