From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] 8390: Split 8390 support into a pausing and a non pausing driver core Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:50:38 -0400 Message-ID: <486E1C9E.6080802@garzik.org> References: <200807040643.m646hCdF017240@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, alan@redhat.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:56397 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752876AbYGDMum (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:50:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807040643.m646hCdF017240@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > From: Alan Cox > > Only a few ISA controllers need the pausing version of the 8390 core > while PCMCIA, later ISA and PCI do not. More importantly the ISA delays > can break non ISA boxes so we must use a different build of 8390.c for > the two sets of controllers. > > No changes since last time as all the points of concerns raised proved to > be invalid > > [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: ne2 (MCA) needs both 8390.o and 8390p.o functions] > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox > Cc: Jeff Garzik > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton applied, after removing the comment as Alan requested