RE: What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Wilson
do not express your frustration ... wasn't frustration but rather playful sarcasm. This was not a bug report at all... Wasn't really meant to be a true blue bug report (my bad I guess). Anywho, I know you guys have big fish to fry so I tried to keep it short and to the point. I knew something

What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Wilson
In SMP kernels 2.6.21 and prior you could use a SOCK's sendmsg() call via the PROTO structure directly. e.g., sock-sk_prot-sendmsg(). Now in 2.6.22 and later kernels you must use the higher level SOCKET to make a call to PROTO_OPS then to sendmsg(). e.g., socket-ops-sendmsg(). Would someone

Re: What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-13 Thread David Miller
From: Kevin Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:54:31 -0600 The 2nd method fixes the kernel oops I reported. Thanks to all those that assisted me (0) with my first post to this list (see below) ... uh, oh yeah, did I mention that number would tally up to ZERO people. ;-}

RE: What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Wilson
I see your point but it just so happens it is a GPL'd driver, as is all of our Linux code we produce for our hardware. Granted it is out of tree, and after you saw it you would want it to stay that way. However, I would have sent you the whole thing if that is a pre-req to cordial exchanges on

RE: What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-13 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Kevin Wilson wrote: Nonetheless, a somewhat recent change in your tree, that I could not pinpoint on my own, caused the driver to stop functioning properly. So after much searching in git/google/sources with no luck, I decided to ask for a little assistance, maybe just a hint as to where the

Re: What was the reason for 2.6.22 SMP kernels to change how sendmsg is called?

2007-12-13 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi Kevin. On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:00:02PM -0600, Kevin Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I see your point but it just so happens it is a GPL'd driver, as is all of our Linux code we produce for our hardware. Granted it is out of tree, and after you saw it you would want it to stay that