From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161080AbWASKIX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161114AbWASKIX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:08:23 -0500 Received: from general.keba.co.at ([193.154.24.243]:41859 "EHLO helga.keba.co.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161080AbWASKIW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:08:22 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: My vote against eepro* removal Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:08:17 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: My vote against eepro* removal Thread-Index: AcYcy9rqb/G5qZO0RDe1/KEdpPhhOwAE7mPA From: "kus Kusche Klaus" To: "Arjan van de Ven" Cc: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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) KEBA AG Gewerbepark Urfahr, A-4041 Linz, Austria (Europe) Tel: +43 / 732 / 7090-3120 Fax: +43 / 732 / 7090-6301 E-Mail: kus@keba.com WWW: www.keba.com