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SubjectRe: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:13:16 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

| "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
| >
| > 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?
|
| Well it was a problem a year or so ago.
|
| But init_netdev()'s call to netdev_boot_setup_check() looks like it
| should fix things up, so I'm not sure what's going on...

[I'm looking at 2.4.22 since that is where the problem was reported.]

I don't see anything in 3c59x.c that calls init_netdev().
vortex_probe1() calls alloc_etherdev().
It doesn't call init_etherdev() -> init_netdev(),
AFAICT. ??

But I agree with you, I think there is still an ordering problem.

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~Randy
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