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From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Kernel-janitors] Re: 2.6.6: smc-ultra: eth%d message
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 08:05:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040529080524.GA8950@k3.hellgate.ch> (raw)

On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:27:30 +0200, Németh Márton wrote:
> When I'm loading smc-ultra module with 'modprobe -k smc_ultra' using
> Linux 2.6.6 I get the following message in 'dmesg':
> 
> smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card.
> smc-ultra.c: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
> smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> eth%d: SMC Ultra at 0x280, 00 00 C0 78 C5 B6, IRQ 3 memory 0xd0000-0xd3fff.
> 
> Using Linux kernel 2.4.25 the last line was correct, like this:
> eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x280, 00 00 C0 78 C5 B6, IRQ 3 memory 0xd0000-0xd3fff.
> 
> I think the printk() in linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/smc-ultra.c:243 is buggy,
> but I do not have the knowledge how to correct this.

There are several drivers in 2.6 that use dev->name before calling
register_netdev(), which results in the "eth%d" messages you are seeing.
I've noticed this with mace.c as well (2.6.5 IIRC).

Maybe some KJ would like to pick that up?

Roger
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2004-05-29  8:05 Roger Luethi [this message]
2004-05-31  6:57 ` [Kernel-janitors] Re: 2.6.6: smc-ultra: eth%d message Németh Márton

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