Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Jussi Laako
2002-01-14T22:05:34Z

Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
> Just a short question: the last (add-on) patch to mini-ll I saw on the

It was for full-ll, not for mini-ll.

> patches: drivers/net/3c59x.c
> drivers/net/8139too.c
> drivers/net/eepro100.c
>
> Unfortunately me have neither of those. This would mean I cannot benefit
> from _these_ patches, but instead would need _others_ (like tulip or
> name-one-of-the-rest-of-the-drivers) to see _some_ effect you tell me I
> _should_ see (I currently see _none_). How do you argue then against the
> statement: we need patches for /drivers/net/*.c ?? I do not expect
> 3c59x.c to be particularly bad in comparison to tulip/*.c or lets say
> via-rhine.c, do you?

I also checked the tulip driver (which is the one I use at home) and didn't
find need for "fixing" there. I will definitely take a closer look at that
driver in future.

WLAN drivers seem to need some hacking, but I'm not very interested in that
area. I think WLAN is one big security hole that noone should be using...

- Jussi Laako

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