Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:34:57 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c |
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:12:28AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:02AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > >>This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/eepro100.c driver. > >> > >>Is there any reason why it should be kept? > > > > > >Tt's the only driver which works correctly on ARM CPUs. e100 is > >basically buggy. This has been discussed here on lkml and more > >recently on linux-netdev. If anyone has any further questions > >please read the archives of those two lists. > > After reading the archives, one discovers the current status is: > > waiting on ARM folks to test e100 > > Latest reference is public message-id <4371A373.6000308@pobox.com>, > which was CC'd to you. > > There is a patch in netdev-2.6.git#e100-sbit and in Andrew's -mm tree > that should solve the ARM problems, and finally allow us to kill > eepro100. But it's waiting for feedback...
I'mn not subscribed to netdev, and 4371A373.6000308@pobox.com was not Cc'ed to me, but I do now understand the status of e100/eepro100.
After all my email was just an RFC.
> Jeff
cu Adrian
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