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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:20:22 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: NICs trading places ?
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:02:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> wrote:
>
> > +	if (retval == 0) {
> > +		int i;
> > +		printk("%s: 3c59x, address", dev->name);
> > +		for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
> > +			printk("%c%2.2x", i ? ':' : ' ', dev->dev_addr[i]);
> > +		printk("\n");
> >  		return 0;
> > +	}
> 
> hm.  typing `ifconfig' shows this information.

I like uniformity.
Either all eth cards should have their address in dmesg, or none.
Almost all do.

And: ifconfig does not give the card types.
So presently one needs both boot messages and ifconfig.

And: in some situations the system does not boot because of
eth numbering mixup, and one never gets the opportunity to
ask ifconfig.

Andries

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