As written, yes.
-ishwar
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Yuan Huailin-w19410 wrote:
> thanks, Becker!
>
> In the Ne2.c, I found the module init code:
>
> int init_module(void)
> {
> int this_dev, found = 0;
>
> for (this_dev = 0; this_dev < MAX_NE_CARDS; this_dev++) {
> struct net_device *dev = &dev_ne[this_dev];
> dev->irq = irq[this_dev];
> dev->mem_end = bad[this_dev];
> dev->base_addr = io[this_dev];
> dev->init = ne2_probe;
> if (register_netdev(dev) != 0) {
> if (found != 0) return 0; /* Got at least one. */
>
> printk(KERN_WARNING "ne2.c: No NE/2 card found.\n");
> return -ENXIO;
> }
> found++;
> }
> return 0;
> }
> #define MAX_NE_CARDS 4 /* Max number of NE cards per module */
>
>
> My question is if it only support 4 Ne2 network cards on one host?
>
>
>
> thanks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Becker [mailto:becker@scyld.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:06 AM
> To: Yuan Huailin-w19410
> Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Multi-network card?
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Yuan Huailin-w19410 wrote:
>
> > I want to know how a network card driver code to supports
> > multi-network card on one linux host?
> > If there is a linux kernel mechanism to support multi-card or I should
> > add code in my card driver?
>
> There are many good examples. You first looked at 3c501.c, which is the
> worst example. It was converted to use modules by someone that didn't
> understand the need for multiple network interfaces, and was never fixed
> because no one in their right mind (Alan) uses 3c501 cards.
>
> I've published pci-skeleton.c as an example for many years, and before
> that skeleton.c (which should be considered "isa-skeleton.c")
> ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/pci-skeleton.c
>
>
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