Re: [PATCH] Add boot command line parsing for the e100 driver

[Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

>On Tue, 20 May 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
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>>On Mon, 19 May 2003, Corey Minyard wrote:
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>>>Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>>>>instead of adding such horrible cruft Corey did it should just use the
>>>>>proper API.
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>>>>An API already exists, and it is source compatible between 2.4 and 2.5:
>>>>ethX=.... on the kernel command line.
>>>>
>>>>The proper patch would pick up options from there.
>>>>
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>>>Can you tell me where this is?  I found the "ether=xxx" and
>>>"netdev=xxx", but they are not suitible.  I also could not find
>>>"module_parame" anywhere on google or in the kernel.
>>>
>>>-Corey
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>>:-) module_parm(), look at include/linux/moduleparam.h
>>and scsi for usage examples
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>ugh. s/module_parm/module_param/
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Thank you.  Nobody seems to be able to type correctly today :-).  I had
actually found it, and looked it over.  It looks pretty nice, although
the lack of documentation is somewhat annoying.

However, if the ethX=.... exists, I would far prefer to use that.  (The
parameters for what  am doing have to be at bootup to work, it can't be
after the fact.  I hunted for a while, and I still couldn't find it,
btw.)  Otherwise, it's really up to the driver maintainers.  I will
adjust as they want, I will use the module_param stuff or the old
__setup stuff.  I would like to get this in, though.

-Corey