I have pretty much completed the 2.3.99 merge of drivers/net/3c59x.c and
drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.c.
This driver now supports
3c59x series
3c90x series
3c980 series
3c555 series
3c575 series (Cardbus).
That's EISA, PCI and Cardbus all in the one driver. Fairly cleanly.
I wish to get a patch out for some testing. (As it claims to support 27
different NICs it's gonna need some...)
My question is: how should this driver be integrated into the kernel
tree?
- putting it in drivers/net/3c59x.c and removing
drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.c will break existing /etc/pcmcia/config
settings.
- putting it in drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.c and removing 3c59x.c will
require non-cardbus users to dive down into the "PCMCIA network device
support" configuration menu to enable the driver for their EISA or PCI
NICs. Will also break existing conf.moduleses.
- overwriting both drivers/net/3c59x.c and drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.c
with the same file is obnoxious.
- perhaps make a clean break. Put it in drivers/net/3cxxx.c and remove
the other two.
Any suggestions?
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