From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gortmaker Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver. Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 18:03:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20120518220305.GC15256@windriver.com> References: <1337362769-4676-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <201205182016.51489.linux@rainbow-software.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: , , Alan Cox To: Ondrej Zary Return-path: Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:34374 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966112Ab2ERWDf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2012 18:03:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201205182016.51489.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver.] On 18/05/2012 (Fri 20:16) Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2012 19:39:29 Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > It was amusing that linux was able to make use of this 1980's > > technology on machines long past its intended lifespan, but > > it probably should go now -- it is causing issues in some > > distros[1], and while that might be fixable, it is just not > > worth it. > > > > [1] > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/3com-3c501-card- > >not-detecting-934344/ > > That looks like a bug elsewhere and removing this driver will not fix it. You miss the point. We've got someone with a modern i7 machine who is getting confused by seeing messages from some ancient 3c501 driver, but he doesn't have the context to know it is ancient and the message is a red herring. Will it fix a distro's broken init that tries to modprobe everything? No. Will it help by not muddying the waters with meaningless printk from 3c501 that confuse users? Yes. Thanks, Paul. > > -- > Ondrej Zary