Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

[Udo A. Steinberg]

Sergey Kubushin wrote:
> 
> The older chips (e.g. 82557) work fine. The problem arises when you have the
> newer 82559's. They do work, however, if the power management for eepro100
> is enabled in kernel config. It definitely means that those chips are
> underinitialized (or overinitialized :)) when it's not.

Andrey posted a patch last week, which obviously fixes the 82559 problems.
It's in Linus' latest 2.4.1-pre release too. I have an 82559 and with the
patch there've been no issues here yet - so things are looking good so far.

I suggest that instead of having 3 drivers (eepro100, e100, freebsd), people
should just work together, look at the goodies of each driver and merge them
into one perfect driver.

Regards,
-Udo.