Re: "eth%d" - net dev name in 2.6?

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Re: "eth%d" - net dev name in 2.6?

To:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: "eth%d" - net dev name in 2.6?
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:59:06 +0100
Cc:	Jun Sun <jsun@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to:	<20040310025346.GA5661@deprecation.cyrius.com>
References:	<20040310023308.GU31326@mvista.com> <20040310025346.GA5661@deprecation.cyrius.com>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:53:46AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> I have no idea, but I've seen a similar bug report at
> http://bugs.debian.org/234817

This affects drivers/net/ne.c, so I'm adding netdev to the cc list.

Same problem, dereferencing net_device->name before register_netdev().
That's caused by a bit toooo quick and sloopy conversion from
init_etherdev to alloc_etherdev & register_netdev.

  Ralf

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