Dear Kyle Moffett,
In message 1297467482-14864-3-git-send-email-Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com you wrote:
By allocating the e1000 device structures much earlier, we can easily generate better error messages and siginficantly clean things up.
The only user-visable change (aside from reworded error messages) is that a detected e1000 device which fails to initialize due to software or hardware error will still be allocated a device number.
As one example, consider a system with 2 e1000 PCI devices where the first controller has a corrupted EEPROM. Using the old code the second controller would be "e1000#0", while with this change it would be "e1000#1".
This change should hopefully make such EEPROM errors much more straightforward to handle correctly in boot scripts and the like.
It is also necessary for a followup patch which allows SPI programming of an e1000 controller's EEPROM even if the checksum is invalid.
This patch has a number of overlong lines. Please globally fix the line length.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk