Re: net: generic netdev_ioaddr

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Sat Oct 30 2004 - 20:05:53 EST


Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> With this driver it happens to be MMIO address.

Of course 0x4000 was an IO (non-MMIO) address.

> It seems that the user can also setup dev->base_addr with "netdev="
> kernel parameter before a driver starts probing (for example
> drivers/net/appletalk/cops.c). Should we get rid of "netdev=" too and
> push preconfiguring down to the drivers that actually use it?

Sure, cops.io= should be fine. Or cops.hw=io,irq,mem etc.

Still, this is an issue with non-PnP ISA cards only.
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Krzysztof Halasa
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