netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix panic when using unlisted MAC

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 17:12:24 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix panic when using unlisted MAC

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:32:49PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net> :
> [...]
> > When using the r8169 driver with an unlisted MAC, the system will
> > panic in rtl8169_get_mac_version since it will try to access tp->pci_dev
> > when it's unset.  Moving the call to set pci_dev earlier in
> > rtnl8169_init_one will resolve this and should not introduce any other
> > problems.
> 
> This change has already been committed in Linus's tree.
> 

Hmmm, apparently I need to communicate better with Ivan.... :-)

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