Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 19:11:29 +0100 (CET) | From | Gérard Roudier <> | Subject | Re: [POLITICAL] Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012 |
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> 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....
Ok. I do understand the point, now. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I caught the remark as a too general statement.
May thanks for the efforts maintaining tulip drivers.
Regards, Gérard.
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