Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262294AbTESQv2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 12:51:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262319AbTESQv1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 12:51:27 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com ([204.127.198.39]:20461 "EHLO rwcrmhc53.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262294AbTESQv0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 12:51:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC90E92.4030507@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:04:18 -0500 From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Christoph Hellwig , linux.nics@intel.com, LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add boot command line parsing for the e100 driver References: <3EC901BB.8040100@mvista.com> <20030519171714.A22487@infradead.org> <20030519163052.GB17048@gtf.org> <20030519173323.A22670@infradead.org> <20030519164019.GC17048@gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519164019.GC17048@gtf.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 23 Jeff Garzik wrote: >>instead of adding such horrible cruft Corey did it should just use the >>proper API. >> >> > >An API already exists, and it is source compatible between 2.4 and 2.5: >ethX=.... on the kernel command line. > >The proper patch would pick up options from there. > Can you tell me where this is? I found the "ether=xxx" and "netdev=xxx", but they are not suitible. I also could not find "module_parame" anywhere on google or in the kernel. -Corey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/