On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Chris Higgins wrote:
> Hang on a sec... let's take a very simplistic look at the timeline.
>
> a/ At some point the tulip driver set was working happily.
Bzzt. The tulip driver has always been broken for at least some cards.
Back since at least 1.3.x.
> c/ Changes are made to the kernel core which breaks the drivers
Bad design in the kernel was fixed or thrown out. If you don't like it,
use the 2.0 or 2.2 kernel. Donald didn't like the chosen direction, didn't
want to keep in sync with Linus, and jumped off the boat. Jeff didn't push
him off - cut him some slack.
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