Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 May 2002 10:56:14 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: davicom 9102 and linux 2.5 |
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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:06:30AM +0200, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > Jeff, would you care to enlighten us as to why this was done? To educate > users that the Davicom chip is really a (bad) tulip clone?
The move was mainly motivated by long term programmer direction, not a Config.in user interface change (which in hindsight could have been done better).
Davicom and other tulip-related files are being organized into drivers/net/tulip, and eventually they will be sharing code from a tulip_lib.c file or similar.
My long term idea is to have a shared lib providing the core for drivers which support: 21040/1 chips 21140/2/3 chips Xircom chips ...and then all other tulip clones will probably be rolled into a "tulip_clone.c".
i.e. organize the tulip chips into major families, with a central tulip_lib.c from which they all share code.
Jeff
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