patch for linux/drivers/net/Space.c

Bob_Tracy (rct@gherkin.sa.wlk.com)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 20:05:21 -0500 (CDT)

I guess that auto-probing for Ethernet cards works for everyone
else reading these lists, or this would have been fixed already :-).
The 1.3.7 kernel patch set changed the "device" structure in
"linux/include/linux/netdevice.h" by moving the "tbusy" member
from between the "start" and "interrupt" members to between the
"base_addr" and "irq" members. Unfortunately, this change was not
reflected in the declaration of "eth0_dev" in
"linux/drivers/net/Space.c", and my Ethernet card had not functioned
in any of the kernel releases 1.3.[7-9] because the IRQ wasn't being
autodetected correctly.

Here's a quick patch that you'll want to apply if you are defining
the ETH0_IRQ constant:

*** linux/drivers/net/Space.c~ Wed Jul 12 18:16:43 1995
--- linux/drivers/net/Space.c Thu Jul 13 19:47:39 1995
***************
*** 219,225 ****
"eth1", 0,0,0,0,0xffe0 /* I/O base*/, 0,0,0,0, &eth2_dev, ethif_probe };

static struct device eth0_dev = {
! "eth0", 0, 0, 0, 0, ETH0_ADDR, ETH0_IRQ, 0, 0, 0, &eth1_dev, ethif_probe };

# undef NEXT_DEV
# define NEXT_DEV (&eth0_dev)
--- 219,225 ----
"eth1", 0,0,0,0,0xffe0 /* I/O base*/, 0,0,0,0, &eth2_dev, ethif_probe };

static struct device eth0_dev = {
! "eth0", 0, 0, 0, 0, ETH0_ADDR, 0, ETH0_IRQ, 0, 0, &eth1_dev, ethif_probe };

# undef NEXT_DEV
# define NEXT_DEV (&eth0_dev)

-- 
Bob Tracy	Trident Data Systems	San Antonio, TX
rct@gherkin.wlk.com