Re: 2.5.20 tulip bogosities

Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Mikael,
>
> Can you try an experiment for me?
>
> Run 2.5.19 with the 2.5.20 tulip. Just copy drivers/net/tulip/* from
> 2.5.20 into 2.5.19.
>
> Nothing changed in 2.5.20 tulip that should cause that, AFAICS. So I
> want to narrow down the problem before looking further.

There was a bug in the PCI code that only passed the first device ID the
driver supported to the driver's probe callback. It caused a few other
oddities. A patch was posted to the list:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102316813812289&w=2

and is now in Linus' tree. It should fix the problem, if you get a chance
to test it...

-pat

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