Hi Dave, This fixes it (I wonder if this bug is lurking in any other drivers):
From: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:02 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] net/ibmveth: fix panic in probe netdev->dev_addr changed from being an array to being a pointer, so we should not take its address for memcpy(). Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <s...@canb.auug.org.au> --- drivers/net/ibmveth.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c index 7902e5e..8daffad 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ibmveth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ibmveth.c @@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struct vio_dev *dev, const struct vio_device_ netdev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX; spin_lock_init(&adapter->stats_lock); - memcpy(&netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len); + memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, &adapter->mac_addr, netdev->addr_len); for(i = 0; i<IbmVethNumBufferPools; i++) { struct kobject *kobj = &adapter->rx_buff_pool[i].kobj; -- 1.6.3 -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev