From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1/12] don't dereference netdev->name before register_netdev()
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:14:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040613211416.6b2503c9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040614003331.GP1444@holomorphy.com>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>
> * Removed dev->name lookups before register_netdev
> This fixes Debian BTS #234817.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234817
>
> From: Shaul Karl <shaulk@actcom.net.il>
> To: submit@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Reports about eth%%d at boot
> Message-ID: <20040225225611.GA3532@rakefet>
>
> The problem is that most reports at boot time about the eth modules
> use %%d instead of the interface number. For example,
>
> eth%%d: NE2000 found at 0x280, using IRQ 5.
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 c0 f0 10 eb 56
This generates a storm of rejects against Jeff's current tree. This patch
fixes more than Jeff's tree does, but in some places does it slightly
differently.
It needs to be split up and generally chewed through.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-14 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-14 0:31 [0/12] Debian bugfixes William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:33 ` [1/12] don't dereference netdev->name before register_netdev() William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:34 ` [2/12] lower priority of "too many keys" msg in atkbd.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:36 ` [3/12] remove irda usage of isa_virt_to_bus() William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:37 ` [4/12] unregister driver if probing fails in sb_card.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:38 ` [5/12] Ignore errors from tw_setfeature in 3w-xxxx.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:39 ` [6/12] fix advansys.c highmem bugs William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:40 ` [7/12] Handle NO_SENSE in sd_rw_intr in sd.c William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:41 ` [8/12] fake inquiry for Sony Clie PEG-TJ25 in unusual_devs.h William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:43 ` [9/12] fix duplicate environment variables passed to init William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:45 ` [10/12] fix handling of '/' embedded in filenames in isofs William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:47 ` [11/12] fix isofs ignoring noexec and mode mount options William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 0:48 ` [12/12] fix thread_info.h ignoring __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 8:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:34 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 10:19 ` Roman Zippel
2004-06-14 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 10:47 ` Roman Zippel
2004-06-14 8:15 ` [10/12] fix handling of '/' embedded in filenames in isofs Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:14 ` [8/12] fake inquiry for Sony Clie PEG-TJ25 in unusual_devs.h Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:14 ` [7/12] Handle NO_SENSE in sd_rw_intr in sd.c Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 4:26 ` [6/12] fix advansys.c highmem bugs Andrew Morton
2004-06-14 8:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 8:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:12 ` [5/12] Ignore errors from tw_setfeature in 3w-xxxx.c Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:11 ` [3/12] remove irda usage of isa_virt_to_bus() Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:11 ` [2/12] lower priority of "too many keys" msg in atkbd.c Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 4:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-14 4:27 ` [1/12] don't dereference netdev->name before register_netdev() Jeff Garzik
2004-06-14 5:26 ` Herbert Xu
2004-06-14 8:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-14 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-14 8:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
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