Re: [PATCH]: 2.5.38uc1 (MMU-less support)

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 09:56:18 EST


On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:35:36PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> BTW, the original this came from is in the kernel tree
> at arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c.

Heh.. looks like that driver should move to drivers/net too.

> I don't think this will work. This is not a device that can be
> determined to be present like a PCI device. It is more like an
> ISA device, it needs to be probed to figure out if it is really
> there. I can't see any way not to use Space.c for non-auto-detectable
> type devices... (Offcourse I could be missing something :-)

Sure you can use module_init for non-pci devices... look at 3c501.c and
3c59x.c for examples.

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