From: Casey Leedom <lee...@chelsio.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 16:49:03 +0000
> Oh I definitely understand that and agree. Unfortunately I've > inherited a driver architecture that makes that ... "difficult" > for many operations ... And I have an internal bug filed > against me to fix those particular issues. > > However, that doesn't answer at least one of my questions > which was how do I pass information into the driver _before_ > it does the device probe? I did answer the question, I said that if you fix the real actual core problem then you won't have this need to begin with. I thought I made that perfectly clear. I really am not going to entertain arguments of the form "it's too hard to implement this correctly so I'm going to try and slam a module parameter into the driver to fix things". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html