From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Ceuleers Subject: Re: via-velocity: printk of dev->name before name has been allocated Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:43:05 +0100 Message-ID: <49A11019.6050400@computer.org> References: <49A04E4B.7080207@computer.org> <20090221.235152.144560236.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mailrelay004.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.6.170]:57433 "EHLO mailrelay004.isp.belgacom.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbZBVIoi (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:44:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090221.235152.144560236.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Miller wrote: >> I have the following in dmesg: >> >> [ 21.212838] VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver Ver. 1.14 >> [ 21.212847] Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 VIA Networking Technologies, Inc. >> [ 21.212852] Copyright (c) 2004 Red Hat Inc. >> [ 21.212885] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 >> [ 21.212937] eth%d: set value of parameter Interrupt service works to 64 >> [ 21.213684] eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter >> [ 21.213691] eth0: Ethernet Address: 00:40:63:F4:AF:DE > > This is already fixed in current kernels. > > Reporting such things against 6 release old kernels is very near to > pointless, please check against current releases first next time. Ooh, excuse me! As I wrote I did look at current git net-2.6 and thought the issue was still there. That was based on looking at the code though; I can't run a current kernel on that machine. You guys ar going to have to get better at communicating with your user base...