Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: My vote against eepro* removal | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:08:17 +0100 | From | "kus Kusche Klaus" <> |
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> From: Arjan van de Ven > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 +0100, kus Kusche Klaus wrote: > > Last time I tested (around 2.6.12), eepro100 worked much better > > in -rt kernels w.r.t. latencies than e100: > > no offence but this is EXACTLY the reason why having 2 drivers for the > same hardware is bad. People (in general) will switch to the > 2nd driver > if they hit some thing that is suboptimal, rather than > reporting or even > fixing it. The result of that is that you end up with 2 drivers, each > serving a portion of the users but both suboptimal in non-overlapping > ways. Having one driver that's good enough for both groups is clearly > superior to that....
You describe exactly what happened: I had a problem with e100, I tried eepro100, I was happy with eepro100 (I didn't notice it was scheduled for removal), I didn't care about e100 any more...
I also agree that things should not happen that way, but it was the easy way.
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