netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 07/17] sfc: Remove broken automatic fallback for invalid Falcon chip/board config

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Message-Id: <20101203.090910.183050462.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:09:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 07/17] sfc: Remove broken automatic
 fallback for invalid Falcon chip/board config

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:47:01 +0000

> If the Falcon board config is invalid, we cannot proceed - we do not
> have a valid board type to pass to falcon_probe_board(), and if we
> kluge that to work with an unknown board then other initialisation
> code will crash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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