Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:58:53 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: [POLITICAL] Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012 |
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Gérard Roudier wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > >>Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>>Gérard Roudier wrote: >>> >>>>different from Tekram adapters. Btw, my Netgear FA311 board is not handled >>>>by the sis driver of linux-2.2.20 and my little finger tells me that it >>>>could be so given a few code addition. >>>> >>>Unless you have a really strange board I haven't seen, NetGear FA311 are >>>the natsemi DP83815/6 chips, handling by either "natsemi" or "fa311" >>>drivers, not "sis900" driver... >>> >>> >>sis900 and natsemi are similar, probably both could be handled with one >>driver. >>e.g. freebsd has one driver for natsemi and sis900. >> >>But I'm not a big fan of huge drivers that handle multiple 99% >>compatible controllers and always break for one controller if you try to >>fix another controller, so I won't try to merge them. >> > > So you would have preferred, for example, to have dozens of different > drivers for SYM53C8XX chips and probably as many for Adaptec aic7xxx ones. > And, probably, one set of different drivers per O/S. And why not one set > per O/S major version and even per adjacent ones of the same O/S. > > Given all the different brands that use similar or compatibles chips, the > way you want drivers to be developped and maintained looks just > unrealistic to me.
Jeff has intimate knowledge of the Tulip driver, one of the more complex drivers that supports a bazillion different cards. And also one of the hardest to get (and keep) working on all of the devices it seems....
I think he has a very valid point....
Ben
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