Re: Tulip driver & 2.0.30-pre-patch-2
Franz Sirl (Franz.Sirl@munich.netsurf.de)
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:42:19 +0200
At 14:33 13.07.97 -0400, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
>
>On Sat, Jul 12, 1997 at 11:53:45PM -0700, JDC wrote:
>> I recently tried the 2.0.30-pre-patch-2 which was available
>> on ftp.kernel.org under davem's directory, and have a little
>> "complaint" to make about it.
>
>Don't mean to be picky, but:
>
>> Jul 11 05:16:51 aitsu kernel: tulip.c:v0.76 4/22/97
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.go
>> Jul 11 05:16:51 aitsu kernel: eth0: DEC 21041 Tulip at 0x6000, 21041
mode, 00
>c0 f0 15 f8 47, IRQ 10
>> Jul 11 05:16:51 aitsu kernel: THIS IS AN ALPHA TEST DRIVER.
>> Jul 11 05:16:52 aitsu kernel: eth0:21041 Media information at 30,
default medi
>a 0800 (Autosense).
>> Jul 11 05:16:52 aitsu kernel: eth0: 21041 media 00 (10baseT), csr13
0004 csr1
>4 0000 csr15 0000.
>> Jul 11 05:16:52 aitsu kernel: eth0: 21041 media 00 (10baseT), csr13
0000 csr1
>4 0000 csr15 0000.
>
>It's an alpha test driver.
It still says that, but for most of the people the new driver works better
and it should be included into 2.0.31.
Take a look at the cleaned up version
<http://homepages.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/tulip.c-pre-2.0.31-6>
if you want to have the message removed.
>It blows out for me under 2.1 also.
???
I don't see a single bug report on linux-tulip[-bug]@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
from you, so how can the bugs be found if you don't report them?
>Use de4x5 instead for now.
>Or simply copy the old tulip driver from 2.0.30 into 2.0.31.
>In all honesty, I don't really think it should be put into 2.0 just yet.
>I've got an SMC EtherPower and the new driver doesn't like it at all.
I think it should remain in 2.0.31, for 95% of the people it's more stable
than the old one.
Ciao,
Franz.