Re: Are we going too fast?

Justin Guyett (justin@soze.net)
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 03:29:53 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote:

> You may want to elaborate on the ncr53c8xx problems (I maintain this
> driver). More generally, you must not ignore the thousands of bugs in the
> hardware you are using, but software developpers haven't access to all
> errata descriptions since hardware vendors donnot like to make this
> information freely available.

I've got a quick unrelated question.

Why not change the name (or at least the description) of sym53c8xx to
include the 53c1010 chips, which this driver seems to work on (and on a
SMP box, no less)?

justin

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