Re: [PATCH] ethtool_ops rev 4

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 19:17:57 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Solution #2 chooses to create a tiny bit more 
> merge-to-mainline pain, but also keeps the mainline kernel drivers more 
> clean.

You don't need DO_ETHTOOL_OPS and thus the merge-to-mainline pain
at all if you do something like:

1) SET_ETHDEV_OPS() also overrides the ->do_ioctl() setting to
   a kcompat_netdev_ioctl() one, but remembers the original pointer
   somewhere.

2) kcompat_netdev_ioctl() does the things DO_ETHTOOL_OPS would
   have done, failing that it calls the saved ->do_ioctl() pointer.