From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422749AbWAMRzl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:55:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422752AbWAMRzl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:55:41 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:58568 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422749AbWAMRzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:55:40 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware From: Lee Revell To: Alan Cox Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jon Mason , Muli Ben-Yehuda , Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1137148102.3645.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060112175051.GA17539@us.ibm.com> <43C6ADDE.5060904@liberouter.org> <20060112200735.GD5399@granada.merseine.nu> <20060112214719.GE17539@us.ibm.com> <20060112220039.GX29663@stusta.de> <1137105731.2370.94.camel@mindpipe> <1137148102.3645.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:55:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1137174938.15108.15.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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@loewe-komp.de) ? > > 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