From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: [ANN] removal of certain net drivers coming soon: eepro100, xircom_tulip_cb, iph5526 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:42:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <41F952F4.7040804@pobox.com> Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org ["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.kernel.] jgarzik@pobox.com said: > 3) eepro100 > > Unmaintained; users should use e100. > > When I last mentioned eepro100 was going away, I got a few private > emails saying complaining about issues not yet taken care of in e100. > eepro100 will not be removed until these issues are resolved. I have an intel eepro100 card in an old PII 266. With eepro100, it gets ~9Mbit, but e100 struggles to keep its head above 1Mbit, and is very erratic. Also, drivers/net/Kconfig still claims that E100_NAPI exists, but the option to disable napi has long since been removed from the driver. Jason --- linux-2.6.10/drivers/net/Kconfig.pre 2005-01-29 15:40:48.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/net/Kconfig 2005-01-29 15:41:01.000000000 -0500 @@ -1435,23 +1435,6 @@ . The module will be called e100. -config E100_NAPI - bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" - depends on E100 - help - NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load - when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is - still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. - - If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be - deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), - then say Y here. - - See for more - information. - - If in doubt, say N. - config LNE390 tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL