Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:23:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1 |
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The newer tulip has been reported to just reboot machines randomly on the > > mailing lists. > > And the old (the one in the kernel) doesn't work on A LOT of the common > cheap cards out there.
Note that predictably just not working tends to in my opinion be a lot more better than unpredictable problems that can result in data loss. Reboots certainly fall in the latter category.
Linus
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