The via rhine driver fails to get a dhcp address on my test system on 2.6.0-test4. ethereal shows no dhcp request leaving the box but ifconfig does show the device and it is detected in /proc/pci. Switching from the test3 vs. test4 snapshots built with equivalent configure options on the same system (SuSE 8.2) - test3 works but test4 does not. This is using essentially the default config for both the test3 and test4 cases - the only changes are SMP disabled, scsi devices disabled, Athlon, via-rhine enabled in network devices and a handful of additional filesystems enabled, debug memory allocations enabled. This is the first time in many months that I have seen problems with the via-rhine driver on 2.6
Analyzing the code differences between 2.6.0-test3 and test4 (in via-rhine.c) is not very promising since the only line that has changed (kfree to free_netdev) is in the routine via_rhine_remove_one that seems unlikely to cause problems sending data on the network.
Ideas as to what could have caused the regression?