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Re: dynamic creation of ethernet instances ?


On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 19:22, Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
> Well, I guess I am a little confused :-(
> 
> NETDEVTAB is used all over the place in eth_drv.c, notably
> in  eth_drv_run_deliveries which is directly called by the delivery thread.
> 

This is true, but this is only for calling the DSR (delivery)
code for a physical driver.  I thought you were asking about
virtual drivers (like VLAN) which would not need such (I don't
think).

If you're asking for the ability to just add a physical device 
dynamically, the stack and indeed eCos is not really set up
for this.  eCos is designed for static embedded systems and
dynamic entities are not part of the plan.

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