On Fri, 28 May 2004 10:27:30 +0200, Németh Márton wrote: > When I'm loading smc-ultra module with 'modprobe -k smc_ultra' using > Linux 2.6.6 I get the following message in 'dmesg': > > smc-ultra.c: Presently autoprobing (not recommended) for a single card. > smc-ultra.c: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... > smc-ultra.c:v2.02 2/3/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) > eth%d: SMC Ultra at 0x280, 00 00 C0 78 C5 B6, IRQ 3 memory 0xd0000-0xd3fff. > > Using Linux kernel 2.4.25 the last line was correct, like this: > eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x280, 00 00 C0 78 C5 B6, IRQ 3 memory 0xd0000-0xd3fff. > > I think the printk() in linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/smc-ultra.c:243 is buggy, > but I do not have the knowledge how to correct this. There are several drivers in 2.6 that use dev->name before calling register_netdev(), which results in the "eth%d" messages you are seeing. I've noticed this with mace.c as well (2.6.5 IIRC). Maybe some KJ would like to pick that up? Roger - : 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
