Re: LANCE ethernet chip - ~24 drivers

Maciej W. Rozycki (macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl)
Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:39:02 +0200 (MET DST)


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote:

> One has to wonder. I was looking at 1.2.13 and there is mention of
> splitting a driver, I forget which one, because there are two bits with
> reversed sense in later versions of a card.

Hmm, forking a driver due to a two-bit difference is a nonsense IMHO.
Now you have two separate drivers with code updates happening in one of
them only each time.

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