Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/net: param for lapbether for specific ethernet device

I will be using an Ubuntu 10.04 kernel with the 'eth_dev' module 
parameter patch.  I appreciate a better solution needs to be designed 
but it is not one I can contribute to.  I still advocate the patch as an 
improvement on the current non functional situation.

On 19/06/13 20:18, David Miller wrote:

From: Stephen Moorby <redacted>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:26:53 +0100

quoted

The lapbether driver binds to the first ethernet device that comes up.
This causes problems in hardware with multiple ethernet interfaces,
potentially resulting in the LAPB traffic on the wrong interface.
Have added a module parameter 'eth_dev' to specify the ethernet
interface over which lapbether should operate.  The module behaves
as before if no device is specified.

Patch created on linux-next 18-Jun-2013.
Tested on 2.6.32-45-generic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Moorby <redacted>

I rejected this patch last night, stating that module parameters are
deeply discouraged and therefore you need to create a runtime mechanism
to control this.