Volker Sauer <vsauer@dvs.tu-darmstadt.de> :
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> I'm neither a skilled C-programmer nor a kernel-expert, but looking at
> drivers/net/sundance.c:1605 I see, that SIOCDEVPRIVATE does
> nothing else then printing this debug message.

Yuck.

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> So the questions is: why? What is this good for?
> And: can I remove it? I can not abandon snmpd and the messages spam my
> syslog.
> Or: do I have to patch snmpd?

Please try the attached patch.

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> P.S.: there's no one in the MAINTAINERS file for sundance.c. Is someone
> here who still cares about this driver?

Please Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org on further replies, thanks.

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Ueimor