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Old 04-07-2005, 02:57 PM   #1
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statically link a network card driver into kernel


hi

I got a r8169 chip set network card running on SuSE 7.3 as a module.
The manufacturer (http://www.surecom.com.tw) supplied the Linux driver on the floppy. WOW!

the following tweak doubled the performance :-)
Code:
/* max supported gigabit ethernet frame size -- must be at least (dev->mtu+14+4).*/
#define MAX_ETH_FRAME_SIZE      8000
/* #define MAX_ETH_FRAME_SIZE   1536 */
Next thing I want to do is to statically link the driver into the kernel. The aim is to make a diskless netboot kernel with mknbi.

Theoretically, it is possible to load the module using an initrd, but I think statically linking is easier to do.
I had a look at drivers/net/Makefile and Config.in, but it is not straight-forward to me how to tweak them to compile r8169.c into the kernel.


Any suggestions to find the easiest way?
 
  


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