From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:12:28 -0500 Message-ID: <437DFD6C.1020106@pobox.com> References: <20051118033302.GO11494@stusta.de> <20051118090158.GA11621@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , saw@saw.sw.com.sg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" Return-path: To: Russell King In-Reply-To: <20051118090158.GA11621@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:02AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/eepro100.c driver. >> >>Is there any reason why it should be kept? > > > Tt's the only driver which works correctly on ARM CPUs. e100 is > basically buggy. This has been discussed here on lkml and more > recently on linux-netdev. If anyone has any further questions > please read the archives of those two lists. After reading the archives, one discovers the current status is: waiting on ARM folks to test e100 Latest reference is public message-id <4371A373.6000308@pobox.com>, which was CC'd to you. There is a patch in netdev-2.6.git#e100-sbit and in Andrew's -mm tree that should solve the ARM problems, and finally allow us to kill eepro100. But it's waiting for feedback... Jeff