Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:01:32 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | ether= breakage (was Re: [patch] 2.3.99-pre3-3: dev_alloc_name) |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> The next thing to fix is actually putting the command-line ether= > parameters _somewhere_. My plan for that is to assume that the user > is correct, and then to just count from the first '...%d' that we find > in dev_base. Does that sound right?
To show what I mean with code, here's an untested patch to eth_setup.
Tim. */
Index: linux/net/ethernet/eth.c diff -u linux/net/ethernet/eth.c:1.1.1.2 linux/net/ethernet/eth.c:1.2 --- linux/net/ethernet/eth.c:1.1.1.2 Mon Jan 24 10:17:56 2000 +++ linux/net/ethernet/eth.c Tue Mar 21 11:00:38 2000 @@ -64,16 +64,26 @@ { int ints[5]; struct net_device *d; + int namelen, n, count = 0; str = get_options(str, ARRAY_SIZE(ints), ints); if (!str || !*str) return 0; + for (namelen = 0; str[namelen]; namelen++) + if (str[namelen] >= '0' && + str[namelen] <= '9') + break; + + n = simple_strtoul (str + namelen, NULL, 0); + d = dev_base; while (d) { - if (!strcmp(str,d->name)) + if (!strcmp(str,d->name) /* exact match */ + || (strchr(d->name, '%') /* format string */ + && !strncmp(str, d->name, namelen) && n == count++)) { if (ints[0] > 0) d->irq=ints[1];
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