From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263008AbTJPPXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:23:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263009AbTJPPXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:23:17 -0400 Received: from cimice4.lam.cz ([212.71.168.94]:51329 "EHLO beton.cybernet.src") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263008AbTJPPXQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:23:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:23:15 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Karel_Kulhav=FD?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Vortex passing kernel parameters Message-ID: <20031016172315.F3227@beton.cybernet.src> References: <20031014184341.A270@beton.cybernet.src> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from becker@scyld.com on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:17:18PM -0400 X-Orientation: Gay Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is what Don Becker says: Cl< On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:17:18PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-2] Karel Kulhavý wrote: > > > Please tell me how do I do a kernel boot-time ether=... equivalent of > > insmod 3c59x.c options=0x201 full_duplex=1 ? > > Read > http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > > If you are using a driver modified by others, they should have > documented how to pass the parameters. > > In general, people making modifications neither provide documentation > nor support tools for their modified versions. And this is never > pointed out on the kernel mailing lists... > > -- > Donald Becker becker@scyld.com > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com > 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 Scyld Beowulf cluster system > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 >