[Bug 13743] Hang when hotplug tries to load driver for 8139 card

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------- Additional Comments From ben.collins at ubuntu.com  2005-09-28 19:09 UTC -------
The 8139 driver isn't hanging the boot process. We went through this with
another bug report. It's just that there is no output (quiet), and 8139cp spews
these messages (which aren't bugs), and the user thought that the period where
there was no output was caused by the 8139 driver, since nothing else showed on
the console until usplash started.

Everyone must note that the PCI vendor/device ID's of these cards are _exactly_
the same. The only way to tell if it's an 8139C+ card is to load the driver and
have it read the eeprom. Not something that can be easily done from user space.
So 8139too takes over afterwards, and sets up the card if it wasn't already
taken by 8139cp.

This is not a bug, and the current situation is ideal. THe only thing that may
be done is to get rid of the messages, or tone them down to KERN_INFO. It's just
cosmetic, and nothing more.

This is a non-bug and should be closed.

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