Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:36:35 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] CONFIG_FORCEDETH updates | From | (Arthur Othieno) |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:03:36PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch contains the following possible updates: > > - let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL > > - remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text: > > for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not > > how it was developed > > Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper > documentation?
Been using it on nForce since v0.19 (circa 2003) with no problems. I doubt there are that many (significant) users of the binary driver left..
And like Alistair pointed out:
drivers/net/forcedeth:17: * Copyright (c) 2004 NVIDIA Corporation
> I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast ethernet > controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid supporting > a vendor so hostile to Linux.
Then how about moving the "Reverse Engineered" to the help text instead? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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