netdev - Re: via-velocity: printk of dev->name before name has been allocated

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Message-Id: <20090221.235152.144560236.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:51:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jan.ceuleers@...puter.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: via-velocity: printk of dev->name before name has been
 allocated

From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:56:11 +0100

> 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.

Thank you.
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