Hello Rusty, virtnet_probe already calls alloc_etherdev, which calls ether_setup. There is no need to do that again. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) Index: kvm/drivers/net/virtio_net.c ==================================================================--- kvm.orig/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ kvm/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -329,11 +329,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_d dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct virtnet_info)); if (!dev) return -ENOMEM; /* Set up network device as normal. */ - ether_setup(dev); dev->open = virtnet_open; dev->stop = virtnet_close; dev->hard_start_xmit = start_xmit; dev->features = NETIF_F_HIGHDMA; SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &vdev->dev);