It seems the following compile error comes from Linus' tree: <-- snip --> ... gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/net/.sb1000.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=sb1000 -DKBUILD_MODNAME=sb1000 -c -o drivers/net/sb1000.o drivers/net/sb1000.c drivers/net/sb1000.c: In function `sb1000_probe_one': drivers/net/sb1000.c:191: warning: implicit declaration of function `alloc_netdev' drivers/net/sb1000.c:191: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast drivers/net/sb1000.c:154: warning: `dev' might be used uninitialized in this function ... ... --end-group -o .tmp_vmlinux1 drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x22e7b5): In function `sb1000_probe_one': : undefined reference to `alloc_netdev' ... make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html