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From: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 16:49:03 +0000

>   Oh I definitely understand that and agree.  Unfortunately I've
> inherited a driver architecture that makes that ... "difficult"
> for many operations ...  And I have an internal bug filed
> against me to fix those particular issues.
> 
>   However, that doesn't answer at least one of my questions
> which was how do I pass information into the driver _before_
> it does the device probe?

I did answer the question, I said that if you fix the real actual
core problem then you won't have this need to begin with.

I thought I made that perfectly clear.

I really am not going to entertain arguments of the form "it's
too hard to implement this correctly so I'm going to try
and slam a module parameter into the driver to fix things".