From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clock@twibright.com
Subject: Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:13:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014211316.64c7eeb9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014205702.140b6476.rddunlap@osdl.org>
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 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?
Well it was a problem a year or so ago.
But init_netdev()'s call to netdev_boot_setup_check() looks like it
should fix things up, so I'm not sure what's going on...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-15 3:57 Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-15 4:13 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-15 4:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2003-10-14 16:32 Karel Kulhavý
2003-10-14 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
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