Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] CONFIG_FORCEDETH updates

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 17:01:39 EST


On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the following possible updates:
> - let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
> - remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text:
> for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not
> how it was developed

Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper
documentation? I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast
ethernet controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid
supporting a vendor so hostile to Linux.

Lee

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