From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Q: MTD and NIC Roms...
Date: 13 Feb 2003 00:41:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34r78bpac.fsf@lnxi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045117634.9349.19.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk>
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:45, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Currently I have a patch to eepro100.c that adds an MTD map driver so
> > the onboard rom can be written. Making code like etherboot easier to
> > flash etc.
> >
> > This works by default except when everything is compiled into the
> > kernel. In the latter case the map driver fails because NIC are
> > initialized before the mtd subsystem. This can be handled be
> > modifying the link order of the kernel in 2.4. but that is not
> > a pretty situation.
> >
> > I am currently looking for ideas on ways to cleanly get this code
> > into the kernel, and I am looking for ideas.
>
> grep --after-context=15 'BIG UGLY NOTE' drivers/mtd/
>
> Thankfully, the inter_module_register() abortion is now gone and we can
> fix it all again in 2.5 by reverting to get_module_symbol() as it was
> before.
That one is good to hear.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 5:45 Q: MTD and NIC Roms Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-13 6:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-13 6:29 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 6:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-13 7:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 0:33 ` yxh
2003-02-20 3:05 ` 邹应双
2003-02-13 18:34 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-02-13 6:27 ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-13 7:41 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-03-06 20:20 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-04-08 11:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
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