Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 3Com support broken in 2.3.47 | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:14:13 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'm beginning to wonder why the 3com NIC driver isn't being integrated into > the kernel. From what I've heard, it's significantly more efficient. Surely, > with the size user-base of linux, 3com and the kernel team would want it in > the kernel?
3Com's driver is X86 only, crashes in seconds SMP and despite the SMP problem being reported (at least claimed to be reported) to 3com by several people who I've also talked to about 3c59x/3c90x hangs has never been fixed.
As far as 2.3.x goes, the 2.3.x network drivers are mostly out of date with respect to 2.2.x. Jeff Garzik has been doing some work on resynching them and once 2.2.15 is out we can sync the 2.2.14->15 changes into the tree.
Alan
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