netdev - Re: odd RTL8139 quirk.

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Message-ID: <48179F02.6020309@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:19:46 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: odd RTL8139 quirk.

Dave Jones wrote:
>>>From a quick eyeball, that would seem that it still requires a choice
> to be made whether or not to enable CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO
> What I had in mind was to make that whole USE_IO_OPS ifdef
> (and related bits) if (modparm==.. instead of #ifdefs.

The patch is the requisite groundwork to add such a module param... 
iomap support is required to enable runtime rather than compile-time 
MMIO/PIO switching.

e100 does this with the 'use_io' module param.

	Jeff

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