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Re: Problem PCMCIA and network initialization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK])
Thu Nov 2 06:35:01 1995
From: "Matti E. Aarnio [OH1MQK]" <mea@mea.cc.utu.fi>
To: longyear@netcom.com
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 08:46:03 +0200 (EET)
Cc: gpg109@rsphy4.anu.edu.au, tytso@mit.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511011418.GAA00188@sii-4-30.sii.com> from "Al Longyear" at Nov 1, 95 06:18:33 am
> Paul Gormaker worte:
> > Also, I just compiled a fresh 1.3.37 with no net devices included,
> > and it just comes up with the loopback device. I can't reproduce
> > what you have with the empty slots remaining in the dev_base linked
> > list. The empty slots that are put into the list in drivers/net/Space.c
> > that don't get filled with a valid device get removed from the chain
> > in net/core/dev.c by net_dev_init().
>
> I noticed the same problem when I ran the 2.2 version of PPP. It mysteriously
> went away when I upgraded the kernel or switched to using modules for ppp
> or something.
.....
> I believe that the same logic was used by Matt when he implemented the code
> in the SLIP driver as well.
Actually I took model from then alpha "dynamic-PPP-devices",
but a couple versions back somebody (propably the "Mr. PCMCIA",
name escapes me right now) sent a diff to Linus for fixing a few
things, and one of them was to use error return instead of doing
explicite unlink..
(We had some private exchange with Al and Ted about this too.
Al found the problem at PPP driver, and has sent patch to Linus.)
> --
> Al Longyear longyear@sii.com
/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
