From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, tulip-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:43:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051119204319.GN16060@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437E56EA.8070103@rtr.ca>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c
> >driver.
> >
> >Is there any reason why it should be kept?
>
> Yes. It is the only driver that works
> without lockups on Xircom Cardbus cards.
> Or so has been the case any time I've tried
> the alternatives.
>
> Is there any good reason to nuke it?
- there's a more recent driver for the same hardware
- the driver uses the deprecated virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt we want to get
rid of
Can you give me a pointer to your bug report containing more details
regarding the problems you had with the xircom_cb driver?
cu
Adrian
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-18 3:33 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 22:34 ` Mark Lord
2005-11-19 20:43 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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