Re: Call for evaluation: new Intel eepro/100+, eepro100/S open source driver (but not GPL). Is it stable, neat, or on it's way

From: George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 16:29:51 EST


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Looked at the driver, doesn't set IFF_RUNNING to reflect the link state.
> > Might not be a good candidate for things like channel bonding.
>
> Having had a look at it the driver is pretty clean for a cross platform driver,
> its got uglies but most are caused by that. I think the best use of the info
> is fixing the existing GPL driver to know about the hardware bugs they
> document, the copy-checksum support and other bits.

And looking closer, it looks like what I was looking for is there but with
different names. It looks like bdp->flags might be something like
dev->flags and DF_LINK_UP might be something like IFF_RUNNING.

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