From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: "David Laight" <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "Paul Gortmaker" <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
"Ondrej Zary" <linux@rainbow-software.org>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver.
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:46:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120521194659.04461096@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B6F13@saturn3.aculab.com>
> Probing for non-pnp ISA cards is definitely unreliable.
> Maybe some of these drivers should need to be explicitly
> enabled in the kernel config.
The config is set by the distributions, not always cluefully. Non PnP
ISA drivers won't autoload either as they have nothing to key off.
> I hadn't realised how bad some of the 3cxxx cards were!
The 3c500/01 were the first PC ethernet card ever so very very old.
> I thought the 'parallel tasking' was all about starting
> to tx a frame while the host was still copting it to the
> tx fifo (and rx copies before end of frame), not that
It was.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-18 17:39 [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-18 18:16 ` Ondrej Zary
2012-05-18 22:03 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-19 8:58 ` Ondrej Zary
2012-05-20 16:41 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-21 13:42 ` David Laight
2012-05-21 18:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-05-19 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2012-05-19 22:33 ` David Miller
2012-05-20 16:08 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-19 3:54 ` David Miller
2012-05-19 12:31 ` Alan Cox
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2012-05-20 16:02 Emmanuel Fusté
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