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SubjectRe: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters
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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~Randy
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