Subject: Re: via-velocity: printk of dev->name before name has been allocated

From: Jan Ceuleers <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:08:02 +0100

David Miller wrote:
>> I have the following in dmesg:
>>
>> [   21.212838] VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver Ver. 1.14
>> [   21.212847] Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 VIA Networking Technologies, Inc.
>> [   21.212852] Copyright (c) 2004 Red Hat Inc.
>> [   21.212885] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
>> [   21.212937] eth%d: set value of parameter Interrupt service works to 64
>> [   21.213684] eth0: VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
>> [   21.213691] eth0: Ethernet Address: 00:40:63:F4:AF:DE
> 
> This is already fixed in current kernels.

OK, found the commit (07b5f6a6fd0ce47390f7fbec966cd5c70127e597). Sorry 
to have bothered you.