Re: 2.5.20 tulip bogosities

Mikael Pettersson
2002-06-06T20:27:02Z

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT), Patrick Mochel wrote:
>> Run 2.5.19 with the 2.5.20 tulip. Just copy drivers/net/tulip/* from
>> 2.5.20 into 2.5.19.
>>
>> Nothing changed in 2.5.20 tulip that should cause that, AFAICS. So I
>> want to narrow down the problem before looking further.
>
>There was a bug in the PCI code that only passed the first device ID the
>driver supported to the driver's probe callback. It caused a few other
>oddities. A patch was posted to the list:
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102316813812289&w=2
>
>and is now in Linus' tree. It should fix the problem, if you get a chance
>to test it...
>
> -pat

The patch Pat refers to above fixed my tulip problem in 2.5.20.

For completeness I also tested 2.5.19 with 2.5.20's tulip code,
and it worked fine, as expected.

Thanks,

/Mikael