Re: Vortex 3c900 passing driver parameters

[Andrew Morton]

Karel Kulhavý <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.  
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