From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow multiple dummy devices again Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 07:04:37 +0000 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20031128070437.A5765@infradead.org> References: <20031128004445.GA2870@averell> <20031127171313.04f89baa.davem@redhat.com> <1069983202.1041.5.camel@jzny.localdomain> <20031127174012.0bab844e.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, ak@muc.de, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031127174012.0bab844e.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:40:12PM -0800 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:40:12PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On 27 Nov 2003 20:33:22 -0500 > jamal wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 20:13, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > > Even though we generally frown upon module options for networking > > > devices, I think it's wholly appropriate for this case. > > > > Why not make it also a boot option? > > They're one in the same these days. > > If the driver is built as a module, you pass the option in with > at modload time, else you pass it in on the kernel command line. You'd have to use module_param for that, but it appears the driver uses the deprectated MODULE_PARAM..