From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
jgarzik@pobox.com, saw@saw.sw.com.sg,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:03:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060115160340.6f8cc7d6@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060115161958.07e3c7f1@vitb.dev.rtsoft.ru>
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:19:58 +0300
Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:18:26 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> > This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/eepro100.c driver.
> >
> > Is there any known problem in e100 still preventing us from removing
> > this driver (it seems noone was able anymore to verify the ARM problem)?
> >
> I think I am recalling some problems on ppc82xx, when e100 was stuck on startup,
> and eepro100 worked just fine.
>
> Even if the patch below will be scheduled for application, we need to set up enough time
> for approval that e100 will be fine for all the up-to-date hw; or it should be fixed/updated before eepro100 removal.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> >
> >
How about doing what was done with devfs removal, and remove it
from the config menu system for a couple of releases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 18:18 [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c Adrian Bunk
2006-01-05 18:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-05 21:04 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-01-15 0:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-15 13:19 ` Vitaly Bordug
2006-01-16 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-01-17 18:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-17 22:27 ` John Ronciak
2006-01-18 0:32 ` John W. Linville
2006-01-18 0:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-18 7:41 ` [2.6 patch] schedule eepro100.c for removal Adrian Bunk
2006-01-18 10:34 ` [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c Vitaly Bordug
2006-01-16 0:08 ` Adrian Bunk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-18 3:33 Adrian Bunk
2005-11-18 9:01 ` Russell King
2005-11-18 9:08 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 16:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-18 16:32 ` Russell King
2005-11-19 20:34 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-23 22:15 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 22:24 ` Russell King
2005-11-24 10:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-11-23 22:39 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-23 22:53 ` Russell King
2005-11-23 23:01 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-18 17:04 ` Tim Schmielau
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