From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: greearbxu@candelatech.com (Ben Greear)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Replace the eepro100 driver with the e100 driver??
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:03:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109192203.f8JM3Kh10663@ns.caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BA90EF2.527C9A50@candelatech.com>
In article <3BA90EF2.527C9A50@candelatech.com> you wrote:
> The e100 license appears to be compatible, and it has some nice features, like
> interrupt-cooelescing that I don't think are supported in the eepro100..
>
> I keep thinking that if everyone could get behind a single driver,
> especially one with corporate support, we may have a more stable
> result...
>
> Here's the license:
Even if the license were compatible (it isn't) I wouldn't ever choose
to replace eeproo100 with e100 - whilst eeproo100 is a rather nice
behaving Linux driver, e100 is an utter piece of crap. Never seen
a driver so full of interface violations, wrong types, races, bugs,
etc..
Christoph
--
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-19 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-19 21:32 Ben Greear
2001-09-19 21:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-09-19 22:03 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-09-19 22:10 ` Alan Cox
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