Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Its far from bogus. Its an rx only cable modem device. Your uplink is
> modem and you dont want to arp on it
diff -puN drivers/net/sb1000.c~sb1000-fix drivers/net/sb1000.c
--- 25/drivers/net/sb1000.c~sb1000-fix Wed May 14 12:39:10 2003
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/sb1000.c Wed May 14 12:40:20 2003
@@ -137,17 +137,6 @@ static const struct pnp_device_id sb1000
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pnp, sb1000_pnp_ids);
-static void
-sb1000_setup(struct net_device *dev)
-{
- dev->type = ARPHRD_ETHER;
- dev->mtu = 1500;
- dev->addr_len = ETH_ALEN;
-
- /* New-style flags. */
- dev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT|IFF_NOARP;
-}
-
static int
sb1000_probe_one(struct pnp_dev *pdev, const struct pnp_device_id *id)
{
@@ -188,11 +177,18 @@ sb1000_probe_one(struct pnp_dev *pdev, c
"S/N %#8.8x, IRQ %d.\n", dev->name, dev->base_addr,
dev->mem_start, serial_number, dev->irq);
- dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct sb1000_private), "cm%d", sb1000_setup);
+ dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct sb1000_private));
if (!dev) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out_release_regions;
}
+
+ /*
+ * The SB1000 is an rx-only cable modem device. The uplink is a modem
+ * and we do not want to arp on it.
+ */
+ dev->flags = IFF_POINTOPOINT|IFF_NOARP;
+
SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
if (sb1000_debug > 0)
_
-
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