Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

[Roberto Nibali <ratz@tac.ch>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Roberto Nibali wrote:
> >
> > > This was a special case, which btw had nothing to do with the starfire
> > > driver itself. The user needed to support more than 8 eth ports, which
> > > 2.2 complains about, and more than 16 eth ports, which 2.2 simply doesn't
> > > allow without further changes.
> >
> > I made the changes and I was able to load 4 quadboards, 2 3com cards and
> > 1 eepro100 (onboard) and I did some tests and it works fine. However the
> > starfire driver seems not to initialize more then 4 quadboards. I put in
> > 5 and he doesn't initialize it and the others don't work although they
> > get initialized.
> 
> If all five show up in 'lspci', then starfire driver should be able to
> register all five.  [if it doesn't, it is probably a starfire bug]

No, it's not a bug but thank you for this tip. It's just a put-on limitation
in the driver itself:

--- starfire.c~	Fri Apr 20 18:48:05 2001
+++ starfire.c	Fri Apr 20 18:27:20 2001
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
 	void (*resume)(struct pci_dev *dev);	/* Device woken up */
 };
 
-#define PCI_MAX_MAPPINGS 16
+#define PCI_MAX_MAPPINGS 32
 static struct pci_driver_mapping drvmap [PCI_MAX_MAPPINGS] = { { NULL, } , };
 
 #define __devinit			__init

This cures my problem. I've checked this and it seems as if Ion copied
this from the sound/emu10k1/emu_wrapper.c code, where I understand that
nobody will have more then 16 times the same soundcard. Ion, do I break
something with this? If not, could you please adjust your driver?

Thanks to all of you for your help. I learned a lot today.
Roberto Nibali, ratz

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