Re: dmfe/tulip device id overlap

[Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>]

Hello Dave-

On 00:30 Sun 29 Nov 2009, David Miller wrote:
> From: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:24:54 -0800
> 
> > I'm ok with this patch except the mention of Ubuntu in the comment is
> > superfluous. All the distro's will share this problem. I trust davem
> > to rewrite the comment and plase add my:
> >     Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
> 
> Please remove the comment and the __sparc__ ifdef.

The comment and the __sparc__ ifdef is the entire patch... so you NACK
the whole patch?? ;)

> If tulip doesn't work on some sparc systems we simply need to fix
> it.

Tulip works on sparc as described in the linux-sparc[1] thread.  The
problem as I understand it:

tulip works for the 0x9100 and 0x9102 parts that were onboard a few
sparc motherboards.

But, those same device IDs are used by a set of Davicom PCI cards that
only work with the dmfe driver.

Thus, the patch only lets tulip handle 0x9100 and 0x9102 if __sparc__.

Perhaps someone knows if there is a way to tell the PCI card from the
sparc builtin machine?

Cheers,

	Brandon

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=123698696912216&w=2