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[PATCH] multiple eth0 mixed PCI/ISA init

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] multiple eth0 mixed PCI/ISA init
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:10:59 -0800
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: Open Source Development Lab
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
This patch for 2.6 fixes the problem found by Zoltan Farkas 
with mixed PCI/ISA and a non-modular config.  The problem is the old_netdev
ISA probing isn't skipping "eth0" which already got assigned by the PCI
initialization.


diff -Nru a/drivers/net/Space.c b/drivers/net/Space.c
--- a/drivers/net/Space.c       Fri Dec 19 15:10:50 2003
+++ b/drivers/net/Space.c       Fri Dec 19 15:10:50 2003
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@
         * Backwards compatibility - historically an I/O base of 1 was 
         * used to indicate not to probe for this ethN interface 
         */
-       if (dev->base_addr == 1) {
+       if (__dev_get_by_name(dev->name) || dev->base_addr == 1) {
                free_netdev(dev);
                return -ENXIO;
        }

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