Re: 2.5.71 -- Lost second 3c509 card

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:52:01AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Pete Clements <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:50:25 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>    >From boot log:
>    
>    Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=341 ether=9,0x310,4,0x3c509,eth1
> 
> Yes, that explains why the second card isn't found.
> 
> The problem is:
> 
> 1) the we can't assign a name to the device
>    until we've registered it with the networking
> 
> 2) without a name the boot argument lookup doesn't work
> 
> 3) we have to register the device with the networking only
>    after it is initialized
> 
> Hmmm...

Crap.  AFAICS, the clean solution would be to pass these guys (blah_probe())
expected device name.  And let them do allocation, etc., themselves.

Looking into it...