There are some disadvantages to using the ec_... drivers for normal
networking. Especially during development it can be a serious hindrance.
An alternative is to unbind and bind the PCI network devices manually:
Given is that the kernel (non-ECAT) driver is loaded for a couple of e.g.
e1000 devices (you cannot do anything about that; the kernel internally
enumerates all matching VIDs and PIDs so udev is of no help here).
Load the ec_ driver (ec_e1000 in the example) for your device. Since
there's already a driver loaded, it will load but not probe.
Next you need to find the PCI device bus address for the device you want to
use for ECAT using (e.g. eth2):
# ethtool -i eth2
and note the 0000:xx:xx.x PCI bus address ('bus-info')
Then, as root, you unbind the kernel driver (e1000) for this device:
# echo <PCI bus address> > /sys/bus/pci/driver/<name of driver to
unbind>/unbind
Finally, bind the EtherCAT capable driver (ec_e1000) for this device using:
# echo <PCI bus address> > sys/bus/pci/driver/<name of loaded EtherCAT
capable driver>/bind
Now two different drivers are loaded for the same type of device.
J.
2014-02-27 22:37 GMT+01:00 Gavin Lambert <gav...@compacsort.com>:
> Quoth Fredrik Viksten:
> > How would I go about setting the system up so I can A) use NIC eth0 for
> > normal network traffic and B) use an EtherCAT-optimized kernel driver
> > for NIC eth1 when they are both using the same chipset?
>
> All you should need to do is to explicitly specify the MAC that you want
> to use for EtherCAT in the /etc/sysconfig/ethercat file, and let it load
> the EtherCAT-optimised driver as normal.
>
> The modified driver includes checks to see whether it's being used in
> EtherCAT mode or not for each individual instance, so the EtherCAT one will
> operate in optimised polling mode and the Ethernet one will operate in
> regular interrupt mode.
>
> You may also need to edit additional config files to avoid treating it as
> a standard Ethernet port (eg. DHCP, network management, etc), but that will
> vary by distribution. I can't really help with that as I've only used
> EtherCAT on small systems (no GUI, minimal number of installed packages).
>
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