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Grant Grundler wrote: > ISTR there was a time when tulip would compete with de4x5 for devices. > tulip is the preferred driver. That's clearly no longer the case > and perhaps both distro's need to revisit this. The only reason why de4x5 still exists is that the /tulip/ driver fails to work on a few chips like the 21142 (43?) shipped in various alpha boxen. de4x5 needs to go away, it's been unmaintained for ages, doesn't support any of the new hotplug APIs. > de2104x is a "work in progress". > That's why it's marked "EXPERIMENTAL" in the Kconfig file. It's not a work in progress, it works just fine for most people (the few that are left). Last I heard, there was a problem with non-twisted-pair stuff, but that's about it. 'experimental' is generally a poorly maintained marker. Jeff -- 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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