From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] drivers/net: delete old 8bit ISA 3c501 driver. Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 19:46:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20120521194659.04461096@bob.linux.org.uk> References: <20120520164114.GD21177@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Paul Gortmaker" , "Ondrej Zary" , , To: "David Laight" Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:14786 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750728Ab2EUSbr (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 14:31:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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