From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: generic netdev_ioaddr
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:52:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099129946.10961.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u0sdb53f.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
Hi,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> writes:
> > What uses ->base_addr from the data returned by SIOCGIFMAP?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 23:13 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>
> ifconfig I think:
[snip]
> With this driver it happens to be MMIO address.
>
> I understand presenting this value to users might have some value:
> it can help determine the physical port/card for a given netdev.
> But it should be something like a description text set by the driver
> (ie. containing PCI bus/device, or even ISA address for ISA non-PnP
> card, possibly with other information).
It seems that the user can also setup dev->base_addr with "netdev="
kernel parameter before a driver starts probing (for example
drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c). Should we get rid of "netdev=" too and
push preconfiguring down to the drivers that actually use it?
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-30 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 10:04 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] net: generic netdev_ioaddr Pekka Enberg
2004-10-29 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Pekka Enberg
2004-10-29 10:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: use netdev_ioaddr in natsemi Pekka Enberg
2004-10-29 10:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: use netdev_ioaddr in 8139too Pekka Enberg
2004-10-29 11:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] net: generic netdev_ioaddr Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-29 13:16 ` Al Viro
2004-10-29 18:50 ` Pekka J Enberg
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-10-29 19:38 ` Al Viro
2004-10-29 21:13 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-10-30 9:52 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2004-10-31 1:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-10-31 7:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-10-31 23:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-11-01 14:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-10-29 20:01 ` [PATCH] net: fix natsemi base_addr casting Pekka Enberg
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