From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Compex FreedomLine 32 PnP-PCI2 broken with de2104x Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:28:14 -0500 Message-ID: <47C26E0E.2070109@pobox.com> References: <200801262158.12016.linux@rainbow-software.org> <200801302123.07783.linux@rainbow-software.org> <20080218032111.GA7970@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ondrej Zary , Linux Kernel , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Grant Grundler Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47661 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750909AbYBYH2g (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:28:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080218032111.GA7970@colo.lackof.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Grant Grundler wrote: > ISTR there was a time when tulip would compete with de4x5 for devices. > tulip is the preferred driver. That's clearly no longer the case > and perhaps both distro's need to revisit this. The only reason why de4x5 still exists is that the /tulip/ driver fails to work on a few chips like the 21142 (43?) shipped in various alpha boxen. de4x5 needs to go away, it's been unmaintained for ages, doesn't support any of the new hotplug APIs. > de2104x is a "work in progress". > That's why it's marked "EXPERIMENTAL" in the Kconfig file. It's not a work in progress, it works just fine for most people (the few that are left). Last I heard, there was a problem with non-twisted-pair stuff, but that's about it. 'experimental' is generally a poorly maintained marker. Jeff