Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 10:28 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Have you checked with the ARM people or the person who added support (
> pwaechtler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) ?
> 
> It's also used in various appliances people "adjust" to run Linux - the
> Philips AOL-TV for example. Also on the SH reference boards for the
> hitachi sh series cpus (arch/sh*).
> 

Yes he was the person I quoted in my previous message, who recommended
we drop it, but it looks like this device is more widely used than we
thought.

I agree that if there's any doubt then we should not remove code.

Lee 

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