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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:09:27 +1000
From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
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Hi Matthew,

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. Drivers in the arch directories is just wrong.


>>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.

OK, that is what I needed :-)
The trick is to define locally your net_device structure.
OK, all fixed up now, no Space.c entries required.

Regards
Greg


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