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Message-Id: <20090802.123033.168343935.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: bzolnier@...il.com
Cc: pcnet32@...izon.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, error27@...il.com, corbet@....net,
eteo@...hat.com, julia@...u.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32: VLB support fixes
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:17:52 +0200
> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] pcnet32: VLB support fixes
>
> VLB support has been broken since at least 2004-2005 period as some
> changes introduced back then assumed that ->pci_dev is always valid,
> lets try to fix it:
>
> - remove duplicated SET_NETDEV_DEV() call
>
> - call SET_NETDEV_DEV() only for PCI devices
>
> - check for ->pci_dev validity in pcnet32_open()
>
> [ Alternatively we may consider removing VLB support but there would not
> be much gain in it since an extra driver code needed for VLB support is
> minimal and quite simple. ]
>
> This takes care of the following entry from Dan's list:
>
> drivers/net/pcnet32.c +1889 pcnet32_probe1(298) warning: variable derefenced before check 'pdev'
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Also applied, thanks.
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