Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 May 2002 11:25:01 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Trivial bugfix in 3c509.c |
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Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>Dave & Martin, > >I noticed you guys included Kasper Dupont's patch in your >2.5.15 patch kits: > >>With 3c509 compiled in kernel calling ifup after lots of >>diskaccess causes an Oops. >> >>read_eeprom was incorrectly marked as __init. This patch >>applies against 2.4.19-pre8-ac1 and maybee also 2.4.19-pre8: >> > >Note that 2.4.19-pre8-ac1 has a newer version of 3c509.c than >either 2.4.19-pre8 vanilla or 2.5.15, and it's only the newer >version that calls read_eeprom() from non-__init code. >This patch is not needed for 2.5.15. > >(The only calls to read_eeprom() in 2.5.15 are from el3_probe(), >which is __init.) >
Nevertheless, I applied it to both, because I want to sync up both copies as much as possible.
Jeff
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