I just wanted to ask a question about these two system calls, because they
are currently causing problems with the etherexpress 100 driver. The
problem is that drivers that use init_etherdev (in 2.1.x kernels) do not
get an "ifindex" -- I do not see it implemented in 2.1.29 (dunno about
pre2.1.30). As a result, I cannot add routes to any NIC that uses this API
as opposed to the register_netdev() API -- was it intentional that ifindex
was not put in init_etherdev? Are init_etherdev() and register_netdev()
mutually exclusive functions (they seem to be, because in the etherexpress
100 driver, there is an #ifdef that uses either init_etherdev() or another
mechanism (including register_netdev()))... Is this an oversight or a
feature?
=-Seth-=