Messages in this thread | | | From | Phillip Dillinger <> | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:28:16 -0800 | Subject | Re: 3c590 |
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> > Phillip, are you working with Don Becker on this? I've been talking to > him recently about the same problems that people are describing. He has > sent me a little patch and I may have been the reason that he's updated > the driver recently. However, he didn't mention that somebody else (you) > have been working on something that might help. Quite frankly, it appears > that you might be working independently and haven't talked to him. If > this is the case I'd urge you to do so. There isn't much point in having > his official driver and an alternative one both in active development. > > Please don't take offense, but Donald Becker has been a well respected > Linux developer for years now and you appear to be coming out of the blue. > In absence of any knowledge of you I'm inclined to listen to DB. And if > you are making valuable improvements I'd trust them more if I knew that DB > was aware of them and including them in the official driver. > > --Eric >
I just found the vortex mailing list today and joined, and I've had very different problems that anybody else so I started working alone on a driver that will work on my particular motherboard.
Now that I am on the vortex list, I hope to work with Donald Becker because he has all of the experience already with net drivers.
Phillip Dillinger phillip.dillinger@sealabs.com
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