Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:57:02 -0700 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters |
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Andrew Morton wrote: | Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com> wrote: | > | > Hello | > | > How do I do a ether=... (kernel boot-time) equivalent of | > insmod 3c59x.o options=0x201 full_duplex=1 ? | | Unfortunately you cannot. `ether=' is broken for all drivers which use the | new(ish) alloc_etherdev() API. | | It is due to ordering problems: the name of the interface is not known at | the time of parsing the setup info and nobody has got down and worked out | how to fix it.
Does this ordering problem apply to both 2.4.current and 2.6.0-test?
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