Re: net: generic netdev_ioaddr

From: Krzysztof Halasa (khc_at_pm.waw.pl)
Date: 10/31/04

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    To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:02:48 +0100

    Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> 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. 

    -- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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