[tulip] Changing MAX_UNITS to a configurable value?

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Ben Greear wrote:

> Actually, it would probably make more sense to have some more global
> settings that influenced all (most) drivers.  For instance, for buffer
> sizes: 'small', 'big', 'huge'  (and let individual drivers deal with
> their internals to keep powers-of-two and/or cache alignment tweakings
> in order...)  We could have another setting to influence the number of
> devices the drivers can support 'few' /* 0-4 */, 'several' /* 0-8 */,
> 'many' /* 0-24 */, 'bunches'/* 0-64 */

I don't see that this makes sense.

> > #define MAX_UNITS 8		/* More are supported, limit only on options */

> Hrm, maybe I have a PCI/Card problem then.  I see 8 ports (two of the
> 3 4-port NICs), but not the last 4 ports.  lspci does not show them
> either.  Does that mean anything to you?

The interface handling code in the kernel might have a limit, or the
tulip driver you are using might have one.  You could try my driver to
check the latter.


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