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    >>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl> writes:

    Andries> I am not quite sure, apologies in case I misremember, but
    Andries> maybe the most recent breakage was caused by Marc Zyngier
    Andries> with EISA bus changes.

    Well, it is not exactly related to EISA bus, although part of the same
    patch.

    The real problem is that some old drivers are still initialized from
    Space.c (they simply do not know about init_etherdev (NULL, ...),
    after all these years). So yes, I broke 3c509 in this respect. I also
    broke znet if that matters. Oh, and the EISA part of depca in the AC
    tree.

    So the questions are :
    - Should Space.c die ? I think so.
    - Should 2.5 be the place and time to kill it ? I also think so.

    I know it is a pain for most of us to have interfaces being
    renumbered. But relying on something as static as Space.c is the wrong
    answer IMHO.

    M.
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