Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

Jeff Garzik
2001-04-20T07:31:34Z

Ion Badulescu wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > > Have you tried loading the drivers as modules? You might have more luck
> > > with that approach. Space.c was designed at a time when having 4 NIC's in
> > > a PC was "pushing the limits"...
> >
> > 2.2.recent has module_init/exit, so you don't even need Space.c.
>
> Check again. drivers/net builds a .a, not a .o. Trust me, I've tried.

Sure, but if you are patching anyway, it much better to fix that than
hack space.c :)

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