From: Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (linux-kernel)
Subject: 2.6.0-test1 and second 3c509
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:13:27 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307151513.LAA09981@clem.clem-digital.net> (raw)
Just a reminder, I'm still backing out the 2.5.71 3c509 changes to get
my second 3c509 card. Glad to test.
Quoting viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:52:01AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net>
> > Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:50:25 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > >From boot log:
> >
> > Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=341 ether=9,0x310,4,0x3c509,eth1
> >
> > Yes, that explains why the second card isn't found.
> >
> > The problem is:
> >
> > 1) the we can't assign a name to the device
> > until we've registered it with the networking
> >
> > 2) without a name the boot argument lookup doesn't work
> >
> > 3) we have to register the device with the networking only
> > after it is initialized
> >
> > Hmmm...
>
> Crap. AFAICS, the clean solution would be to pass these guys (blah_probe())
> expected device name. And let them do allocation, etc., themselves.
>
> Looking into it...
>
--
Pete Clements
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2003-07-15 15:13 Pete Clements [this message]
2003-07-16 2:06 ` 2.6.0-test1 and second 3c509 David S. Miller
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