Messages in this thread | | | From | "Phillips, Mike" <> | Subject | RE: getting "struct pci_dev" from "struct netdevice" | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:27:03 -0400 |
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> Doesn't work for all devices. Also since base_addr is truncated to > 16-bits when passed to ifconfig, this gets even nastier for userspace.
You do the best you can with what's available :)
> ...and noone but the driver can trust this information to be pointing to > an up-to-date struct netdevice.
Shame, perhaps this can be enforced as part of the new pci api.
> Since struct pci_dev is probably going to morph into a more generic > struct hw_dev, maybe struct netdevice needs a pci_dev member...
Would be nice, or perhaps netdevice should expose a function to return the information and let the driver provide the specifics.
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