Bug#522289: vzaphfc fails to compile on 2.6.29

[Art -kwaak- van Breemen]

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:24:19PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> This 'priv' field was removed to prevent direct access to it.

Well, actually the field has been phased out, and replaced with
anonymous storage at the end of the structure, which makes it
possible to have device specific structures in the netdev struct,
which actually probably saves a tlb lookup to dereference priv
:-).
(something like that)

Another problem was that priv wasn't at the end of the structure.

> netdev_priv() should be used instead.

The patch used the anonymous storage to create the old style
void * functionality.

The cleanest version is to actually put the vzaphfc devicestruct
into the anonymous netdev struct.

> There was a similar issue with wctc4xxp which is in the DAHDI tree:
> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14285


>   svn diff -c 5842 http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk
>   svn diff -c 5848 http://svn.digium.com/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk

Well, that's a cleaner way of my patch, but the solution is the
same ;-). In the end it's just a workaround :-(.

Regards,
Ard

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