From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Karel Kulhavý" <clock@twibright.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:49:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014164954.20ac88f6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014183226.A188@beton.cybernet.src>
Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> How do I do a ether=... (kernel boot-time) equivalent of
> insmod 3c59x.o options=0x201 full_duplex=1 ?
>
Unfortunately you cannot. `ether=' is broken for all drivers which use the
new(ish) alloc_etherdev() API.
It is due to ordering problems: the name of the interface is not known at
the time of parsing the setup info and nobody has got down and worked out
how to fix it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-14 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-14 16:32 Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters Karel Kulhavý
2003-10-14 23:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2003-10-15 3:57 Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-15 4:13 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-15 4:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
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