From: "kus Kusche Klaus" <kus@keba.com>
To: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: My vote against eepro* removal
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:08:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AAD6DA242BC63C488511C611BD51F367323321@MAILIT.keba.co.at> (raw)
> From: Arjan van de Ven
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:19 +0100, kus Kusche Klaus wrote:
> > Last time I tested (around 2.6.12), eepro100 worked much better
> > in -rt kernels w.r.t. latencies than e100:
>
> no offence but this is EXACTLY the reason why having 2 drivers for the
> same hardware is bad. People (in general) will switch to the
> 2nd driver
> if they hit some thing that is suboptimal, rather than
> reporting or even
> fixing it. The result of that is that you end up with 2 drivers, each
> serving a portion of the users but both suboptimal in non-overlapping
> ways. Having one driver that's good enough for both groups is clearly
> superior to that....
You describe exactly what happened: I had a problem with e100, I tried
eepro100, I was happy with eepro100 (I didn't notice it was scheduled
for removal), I didn't care about e100 any more...
I also agree that things should not happen that way, but it was the
easy way.
--
Klaus Kusche (Software Development - Control Systems)
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 10:08 kus Kusche Klaus [this message]
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2006-01-24 7:38 My vote against eepro* removal kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-23 11:01 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-23 20:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-01-20 11:27 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 10:51 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 11:05 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-20 10:19 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 11:02 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-21 0:45 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-20 9:37 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 9:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-21 0:40 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 1:19 ` John Ronciak
2006-01-21 1:30 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21 2:01 ` John Ronciak
2006-01-21 3:56 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19 10:26 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-19 16:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-19 17:16 ` John Ronciak
2006-01-19 19:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-19 22:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-19 7:19 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-19 7:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19 7:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
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