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

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 22:32:49 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix panic when using unlisted MAC

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.

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Ueimor
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