Subject: Re: Network device driver probe issues

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:52:58 -0400

Venkatesan, Ganesh wrote:
> We've fixed the e100 to have the same logic as e1000. I like the typhoon
> driver idea.

Unfortunately both are wrong.

e1000 should not be using dev_alloc_name(), and patches to add that to 
e100 will not be accepted.

e100 should not be referencing netdev->name until after 
register_netdev() completes.

The typhoon solution is fine with me.  Other drivers don't bother and 
simply use pci_name() during probe.  It's up to you as maintainer.

	Jeff