Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk (Nick Holloway) writes:
> urban@svenskatest.se (Urban Widmark) writes:
> > (But I don't understand your number of 27 that needs fixing, so maybe I'm
> > way off here ... :)
>
> Tim Waugh said that changing "name" in "struct net_device" from "char*"
> to "char[]" would mean changing a large number of net drivers, as they
> currently assign directly to dev->name.
>
> I looked into drivers/net to see how big this problem was. A quick grep
> for "dev->name *=" revealed the following files:
> [...]
> This is where my figure of 27 comes from.
This count is flawed. In addition to the ones picked out by the grep,
there are also drivers that have:
static char devicename[9] = { 0, };
static struct net_device dev_el2[MAX_EL2_CARDS] = {
{
devicename,
0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0,
0, 0, 0, NULL, NULL
},
};
These also need changing. Add about another dozen. Then add PCMCIA.
Then add FDDI. Then add...
Someone would have to decide that changing dev->name from "char*" to
"char[]" _really_ was the _right_ thing to do.
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