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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dan Aloni wrote:
>
> summery: dev_3c501.name shouldn't be NULL, or we get oops

Note that these days "name" is not a pointer at all, but an array, and as
such cannot be NULL any more. Not initializing it will just cause it to be
empty (ie is the same as initializing it to "").

		Linus

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