On Fri, Mar 31, 2000, Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> wrote:
; On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:20:46PM -0800, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
; > This patch is for 2.2 kernels against Andrey's "1.20.2.4" driver located at
; > ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/v2.2/, this patch provides
; > a bit more detailed information about installed devices.
; Is there any use of this information for the driver itself, except informing
; user? The information about the revision is available by lspci, e.g.
Hi,
82557, 82558, 82559 all share the same PCI Device ID so they all appear
in the driver and in the proc file system as 82557 with this patch we
have all the information centralized so users are less confused and
you don't need to carry specs with you or open the box to figure out
which chip does your NIC carry, right now the driver doesn't take any
advantage of that information, but since each chip has slightly different
personality or errata I would like to take advantage of that information
in the driver, later on.
---Dragan
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