Re: [PATCH] 3c59x and resume

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:44:33PM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> With the 'everything is module' and 'everything is hotplug' approach in
> mind (which is a appealing way and IMHO this is the way we are going),
> I see two part for this problem:
> 
> . Persistence after plug out/plug in 
> 
> . Persistence after suspend/resume
> 
> The first one is a userland problem. The card identification could be
> based on the MAC address (for NICs at least, in the case of cardbus the
> bus position has no real signification). This should then be the
> responsibility of the userspace tool (hotplug) to indicate the correct
> option for this card. The problem is when the module is already loaded,
> the userspace tool has no way to indicate this option.

Untrue.  See
	http://www.kroah.com/linux/hotplug/ols_2001_hotplug_talk/html/mgp00014.html
for a 6 line version of /sbin/hotplug that always assigns the same
"ethX" value to the same MAC address.  I think the patch to nameif has
gone in to support this, but I'm not sure.

And why is there a limitation of only 8 devices?  Why not do what all
USB drivers do, and just create the structure that you need to use at
probe() time, and destroy it at remove() time?

Just my $0.02

thanks,

greg k-h