From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roger Luethi Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 08:05:24 +0000 Subject: [Kernel-janitors] Re: 2.6.6: smc-ultra: eth%d message Message-Id: <20040529080524.GA8950@k3.hellgate.ch> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:27:30 +0200, N=E9meth M=E1rton 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': >=20 > 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 0xd0000-0xd3ff= f. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors