Re: 1.99.14 & duplicate NE2000

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 9 Jun 1996 18:47:34 +0100 (BST)

On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> And no, you can't put a check_region() in the init_module() either,
> as the user may boot with reserve=0x300,0x20 and then later want
> to insmod a driver at 0x300, which would be blocked if you did that.
>
> Paul.
>

You could, but it would have to only do the check_region() if it's not
been supplied with the port (same as the reserve=0x300,0x20
ether=0x300,5,eth0 situation, "operator know's what he/she/it's doing").
Wether it is posable to do the checks, but wouldn't:

if(io=<defaultvalue>) {
check_region(...
...
} else {
...
}

be ok ?
Bryn

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