Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:14:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [1/12] don't dereference netdev->name before register_netdev() |
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William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote: > > * Removed dev->name lookups before register_netdev > This fixes Debian BTS #234817. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234817 > > From: Shaul Karl <shaulk@actcom.net.il> > To: submit@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Reports about eth%%d at boot > Message-ID: <20040225225611.GA3532@rakefet> > > The problem is that most reports at boot time about the eth modules > use %%d instead of the interface number. For example, > > eth%%d: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 5. > NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 c0 f0 10 eb 56
This generates a storm of rejects against Jeff's current tree. This patch fixes more than Jeff's tree does, but in some places does it slightly differently.
It needs to be split up and generally chewed through. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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