Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:42:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: NE2000 PCI clones patches: Vote! |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Jacques Gelinas wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Philip Blundell wrote: > > > I agree with Paul. There is no pressing need to include this in 2.0.x - > > it's not a bug-fix, and as such it should wait for 2.1. > > This is a bug. We are moving to a PCI only world very fast. PCI is no more > a luxury. PCI was made to auto-probe. THis has a drawback. TO use a ne2000
Yes, it's a missing feature. I agree that it would be nice to have, but it's not life-threatening.
But a missing feature is not a bug. This is not the time to be adding features to 2.0.
> 2.0 will be there for a long time. I suspect that the price for PCI
It probably will be. But first we need to let 2.0 stablise. People who have a burning need for PCI NE2000 autodetect can upgrade to 2.1.
phil
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