Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:13:16 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters |
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"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...
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