Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262445AbTETAF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 20:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262523AbTETAF0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 20:05:26 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:7583 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262445AbTETAEA (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 20:04:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 02:16:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Corey Minyard cc: LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add boot command line parsing for the e100 driver In-Reply-To: <3EC90E92.4030507@mvista.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 32 On Mon, 19 May 2003, Corey Minyard wrote: > 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 :-) module_parm(), look at include/linux/moduleparam.h and scsi for usage examples -- Bartlomiej - 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/