Re: [1/12] don't dereference netdev->name before register_netdev()

[Andrew Morton]

William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  	To: submit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  	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.
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