Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:23:50 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > The newer tulip has been reported to just reboot machines randomly on the
> > mailing lists.
>
> And the old (the one in the kernel) doesn't work on A LOT of the common
> cheap cards out there.

Note that predictably just not working tends to in my opinion be a lot
more better than unpredictable problems that can result in data loss.
Reboots certainly fall in the latter category.

Linus

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