Re: [8390] Do not use dev->name before register_netdev

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:16:34PM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:58:59PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > This patch replaces/removes all uses of dev->name in 8390 drivers.
> > As it is, these drivers will do printks or allocate resources with
> > the name eth%d.
> 
> Why is using dev->name a bad thing? 

It's a bad thing if it's set to eth%d and a number hasn't been
allocated yet.
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