Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:04:10 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM REPORT 2.4.20-rc1: sundance.c |
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Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>Hello all, > >I'd like to point out that (at least) the network driver sundance.c has weird >flaws when trying to use more than MAX_UNITS (8) cards at the same time. Since >
Smileys nonwithstanding, you need to include far more information
Please define "weird flaws"... explicitly.
>this driver can be used for DFE-580TX 4 port network card it is really easy to >get more than 8 ports :-) >In fact the driver does check against MAX_UNITS, but does _not_ fail if you go >through the roof. Instead you can expect really interesting ifconfig-outputs >;-) >IMHO it should check and fail. I wonder what other card drivers do in such a >case ... > >
Other card drivers handle this case just fine. The expected behavior is that module options will only support up to MAX_UNITS of certain arguments, but beyond that nothing is affected at all.
Jeff
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