$ make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y
[...]
WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable mipsnet_driver to the function .init.text:mipsnet_probe()
The variable mipsnet_driver references
the function __init mipsnet_probe()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,
[...]

Fixed by making mipsnet_probe __devinit.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

 drivers/net/mipsnet.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Not as fancy as coccinelle.  Checkpatch errors ignored.
Compile tested allyesconfig x86, not all files compiled.

grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] "\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*\&" drivers/net | while read file ; do \
	perl -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s@(\brequest_irq\s*\([^,\)]+,\s*)\&@\1@g ; print ; }' $file ;\
done

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch fixes the bug reported in
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11681.

"Lots of device drivers register a 'struct device_driver' with
the '.bus' member set to '&platform_bus_type'. This is wrong,
since the platform_bus functions expect the 'struct device_driver'
to be wrapped up in a 'struct platform_driver' which provides
some additional callbacks (like suspend_late, resume_early).
The effect may be that platform_suspend_late() uses bogus data
outside the device_driver struct as a pointer pointer to the
device driver's suspend_late() function or other hard to
reproduce failures."(Lothar Wassmann)

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

This is Thiemo's patch.

----- Forwarded message from Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> -----

From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:29:13 +0000
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: [PATCH, REPOST] Fix/Rewrite of the mipsnet driver
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello All,

currently the mipsnet driver fails after transmitting a number of
packages because SKBs are allocated but never freed. I fixed that
and coudn't refrain from removing the most egregious warts.

- mipsnet.h folded into mipsnet.c, as it doesn't provide any
  useful external interface.
- Free SKB after transmission.
- Call free_irq in mipsnet_close, to balance the request_irq in
  mipsnet_open.
- Removed duplicate read of rxDataCount.
- Some identifiers are now less verbose.
- Removed dead and/or unnecessarily complex code.
- Code formatting fixes.

Tested on Qemu's mipssim emulation, with this patch it can boot a
Debian NFSroot.

Thiemo

Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Plus minor formatting fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

General cleanups mostly as suggested by checkpatch plus getting rid of
homebrew version of offsetof().

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

We now have struct net_device_stats embedded in struct net_device,
and the default ->get_stats() hook does the obvious thing for us.

Run through drivers/net/* and remove the driver-local storage of
statistics, and driver-local ->get_stats() hook where applicable.

This was just the low-hanging fruit in drivers/net; plenty more drivers
remain to be updated.

[ Resolved conflicts with napi_struct changes and fix sunqe build
  regression... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>