Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:11:12 +0100 | From | Derek Fawcus <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.3.23 pre 2 compile fixes |
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On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 12:36:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If someone stepped up to fill this role, they can say tell the person > > submitting a new am79c961a driver that support already exists in > > lance.c. Until such a thing happens, you will continue to see problems > > But it doesn't. And BTW I know of at least two attempts to unify all the > lance drivers that failed. They have too many quirks. The 961a driver > is for a weird ARM onboard setup, lance.c is ISA bus with no local ram, > the SK_G16 and the NI drivers are differently arranged local ram setups > and the sparc lance driver has to deal with sun prom stuff and sparc VDMA
The ni6510.c driver can be folded into the lance.c driver with minimal effort. I have had patches for this for a number of years but have (not yet) managed to get them into the kernel. So if I update the patch to work on the latest 2.3 kernel is there any chance of getting it in?
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