Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261454AbUJaBEj (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:04:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261455AbUJaBEj (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:04:39 -0400 Received: from inx.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.20]:54666 "EHLO inx.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261454AbUJaBEg (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:04:36 -0400 To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Al Viro , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: net: generic netdev_ioaddr References: <1099044244.9566.0.camel@localhost> <20041029131607.GU24336@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20041029193827.GV24336@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1099129946.10961.9.camel@localhost> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:02:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1099129946.10961.9.camel@localhost> (Pekka Enberg's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:52:26 +0300") 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: 794 Lines: 21 Pekka Enberg 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 - 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/