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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:57:02 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
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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