Re: [BUG] qeth doesn't work anymore because of netdev_priv changes

[David Miller]

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:46:24 +0200

> git commit e3c50d5d25ac09efd9acbe2b2a3e365466de84ed
> "netdev: netdev_priv() can now be sane again." breaks qeth on s390
> (no more networking possible). Reverting the patch fixes it.
> I haven't looked into this any further.

You guys have to stop overriding netdev->priv if that's what
you're doing.

If you need a mid-layer private pointer, use netdev->ml_priv
as it's created exactly for that purpose.
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