From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [Fwd: kernel 2.4.21] Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:07:37 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030728150737.GB1399@gtf.org> References: <1058634345.22000.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030719191723.0821227f.davem@redhat.com> <3F1E53F7.5000803@unixtech.be> <20030723023528.76b0f69c.davem@redhat.com> <3F1E58EE.5010109@unixtech.be> <20030723024648.2e4b6a62.davem@redhat.com> <3F1E7435.4060308@unixtech.be> <20030727163422.28e44736.davem@redhat.com> <3F24D31F.5050904@unixtech.be> <20030728073240.03ff1c2e.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Cedric Gavage , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030728073240.03ff1c2e.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 07:32:40AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:39:11 +0200 > Cedric Gavage wrote: > > > David S. Miller wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:40:37 +0200 > > > Cedric Gavage wrote: > > > > > >>Ok, now it's e100 driver, I will wait some hours to see if we have again > > >>problems, thanks for your help. > > > > > > Any problems yet? > > > > It's ok now... I was waiting some hours (days) to see if it was really ok ;) > > > > Thanks for your help. > > No problem. > > Alan and Jeff, please note, executive summary: > > 1) 'eepro100' driver in 2.4.x + high end EFNET IRC server == crashes > 2) same as #1 using 'e100' driver == works My Official Story(tm) is currently * use e100 * unless you really really want to use eepro100 eepro100 in the kernel tree is essentially unmaintained. One of the big reasons I merged e100 is that it has an active maintainer with full access to docs. Jeff