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SubjectRe: davicom 9102 and linux 2.5
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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