> On a machine with a handful of ethernet cards things go wrong
> when booting 2.5.24. Backing out the change that makes
> net_dev_init() into an initcall in net/core/dev.c solves
> the problem (no doubt accidentally).
>
> More precisely, what happens is that two cards both get assigned
> eth0, and then when the second one wants to register the error
> -EEXIST is returned.
>
> Thus, some more locking is required, or names must only be given
> to things in the dev_base chain, or ...
Hmmh, I did that change (being aware of the potential to cause breakage,
though I actually thought it should be fine), so I'll go try figure out
what's going wrong. Can you give some more info on your config (which
ethernet drivers are built-in, and which ethernet cards do you have in
your box).
--Kai
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