Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ne2k: fold drivers/net/Space.c into ne.c

Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-04-30T07:22:30Z

On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 at 16:58, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> drivers/net/Space.c is the last remnant of the linux-2.4.x driver model
> that required each subsystem and device driver init function to be called
> from init/main.c explicitly, before the introduction of initcall levels.
>
> In linux-7.0, this was only used for a handful of ISA network drivers,
> with the ne2000 driver being the last one.
>
> Fold the code into ne.c directly, with minimal changes to preserve
> the existing command line parsing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst | 24 +-

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k

> --- a/Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/m68k/kernel-options.rst
> @@ -244,23 +244,7 @@ drive (with "root=").
> 3) General Device Options (Amiga and Atari)
> ===========================================
>
> -3.1) ether=
> ------------
> -
> -:Syntax: ether=[<irq>[,<base_addr>[,<mem_start>[,<mem_end>]]]],<dev-name>
> -
> -<dev-name> is the name of a net driver, as specified in
> -drivers/net/Space.c in the Linux source. Most prominent are eth0, ...
> -eth3, sl0, ... sl3, ppp0, ..., ppp3, dummy, and lo.
> -
> -The non-ethernet drivers (sl, ppp, dummy, lo) obviously ignore the
> -settings by this options. Also, the existing ethernet drivers for
> -Linux/m68k (ariadne, a2065, hydra) don't use them because Zorro boards
> -are really Plug-'n-Play, so the "ether=" option is useless altogether
> -for Linux/m68k.
> -
> -
> -3.2) hd=
> +3.1) hd=

[...]

> -3.3) max_scsi_luns=
> +3.2) max_scsi_luns=

[...]

> -3.4) st=
> +3.3) st=

[...]

> -3.5) dmasound=
> +3.4) dmasound=

So that's why you should leave numbering to the tooling ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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