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Stephen Hemminger authored
In systems with mixed network cards, and all drivers compiled into the kernel; the PCI device (eth0) will get probed first, before the ISA. The problem is that the ISA device can mistakenly try to probe for eth0. The problem is that the ISA driver will not detect the failure until it goes to call register_netdevice, and not all drivers have perfect error unwind code. This patch short circuits the device probe, so it won't bother looking for devices that already are registered.
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