Re: 2.6.4-rc1 + hp100 EISA, not working

[Marc Zyngier <mzyngier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Pawel" == Pawe  <Pawe> writes:

Pawel> On 2.6.3 it just Oopsed and didn't work. On 2.6.4-rc1 it does
Pawel> not oops but it doesn't work (neither as module nor as build in kernel).

Note that hp100 in 2.6.4-rc1 is still broken wrt EISA probing, since
it lacks the terminating entry in the EISA ID list. This one-liner
should take care of random crashes that are often reported to LKML :

===== drivers/net/hp100.c 1.24 vs edited =====
--- 1.24/drivers/net/hp100.c    Wed Feb 18 13:39:41 2004
+++ edited/drivers/net/hp100.c  Mon Mar  1 11:18:00 2004
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@
        { "HWP1990" }, /* HP J2577 */
        { "CPX0301" }, /* ReadyLink ENET100-VG4 */
        { "CPX0401" }, /* FreedomLine 100/VG */
+       { "" }         /* Mandatory final entry ! */
 };
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, hp100_eisa_tbl);
 #endif

Jeff, would you please push this to Linus ?

      M.
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