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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2012-01-16 12:38:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-01-17 10:31:12 -0500
commite52ac3398c3d772d372b9b62ab408fd5eec96840 (patch)
tree1291fbc00c9fec755be01f49be865219d676b540 /net
parent27a429383b399fc0f68bea55c422d7179f3c8b05 (diff)
downloadlinux-e52ac3398c3d772d372b9b62ab408fd5eec96840.tar.gz
net: Use device model to get driver name in skb_gso_segment()
ethtool operations generally require the caller to hold RTNL and are
not safe to call in atomic context.  The device model provides this
information for most devices; we'll only lose it for some old ISA
drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index f494675471a9..7e6b7dcaacde 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1962,13 +1962,13 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	if (unlikely(skb->ip_summed != CHECKSUM_PARTIAL)) {
 		struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
-		struct ethtool_drvinfo info = {};
+		const char *driver = "";
 
-		if (dev && dev->ethtool_ops && dev->ethtool_ops->get_drvinfo)
-			dev->ethtool_ops->get_drvinfo(dev, &info);
+		if (dev && dev->dev.parent)
+			driver = dev_driver_string(dev->dev.parent);
 
 		WARN(1, "%s: caps=(%pNF, %pNF) len=%d data_len=%d ip_summed=%d\n",
-		     info.driver, dev ? &dev->features : NULL,
+		     driver, dev ? &dev->features : NULL,
 		     skb->sk ? &skb->sk->sk_route_caps : NULL,
 		     skb->len, skb->data_len, skb->ip_summed);