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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: akpm <akpm@osdl.org>, clock@twibright.com
Subject: Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:57:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014205702.140b6476.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)

Andrew Morton wrote:
| 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.

Does this ordering problem apply to both 2.4.current and 2.6.0-test?

--
~Randy

             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-15  3:57 Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-10-15  4:13 ` Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters Andrew Morton
2003-10-15  4:38   ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-14 16:32 Karel Kulhavý
2003-10-14 23:49 ` Andrew Morton

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