From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: clem@clem.clem-digital.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.71 -- Lost second 3c509 card
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:31:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615233146.GM6754@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030615.095201.102567075.davem@redhat.com>
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...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-15 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-15 1:53 Pete Clements
2003-06-15 13:19 ` Pete Clements
2003-06-15 16:19 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-15 16:50 ` Pete Clements
2003-06-15 16:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-15 23:31 ` viro [this message]
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