From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:11:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.198.39]:18650 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:11:04 +0000 Received: from gentoo.org (pcp04939029pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[68.48.72.58]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004031004105601500pk8j7e> (Authid: kumba12345); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:10:56 +0000 Message-ID: <404E962D.5070700@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:14:37 -0500 From: Kumba Reply-To: kumba@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: "eth%d" - net dev name in 2.6? References: <20040310023308.GU31326@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <20040310023308.GU31326@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 4521 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Jun Sun wrote: > With swarm running on 2.6 I just saw the net dev names are > not set correctly. See below. > > eth%d: SiByte Ethernet at 0x10064000, address: 00-02-4C-FE-0C-B2 > eth%d: enabling TCP rcv checksum > > It appears alloc_netdev() assigns this initial name and nobody > later resets it to a more meaningful name. > > Any body has a clue here? I don't think it is driver's job though ... > > Thanks. > > Jun I've seen this for ages on 2.4 and 2.6. Seems to be some kind of typo or something in several archs (my Blade 100 shows this in dmesg as well). --Kumba -- "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond