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Hi, Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> writes: > > What uses ->base_addr from the data returned by SIOCGIFMAP? On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 23:13 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > ifconfig I think: [snip] > With this driver it happens to be MMIO address. > > I understand presenting this value to users might have some value: > it can help determine the physical port/card for a given netdev. > But it should be something like a description text set by the driver > (ie. containing PCI bus/device, or even ISA address for ISA non-PnP > card, possibly with other information). It seems that the user can also setup dev->base_addr with "netdev=" kernel parameter before a driver starts probing (for example drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c). Should we get rid of "netdev=" too and push preconfiguring down to the drivers that actually use it? Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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