[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi. I have been using the SMC9000 NIC driver (smc9194.c) and
> recently tried kernel 2.4.0-test1-ac19. Appearantly in the 2.3.45
> patch the driver was marked 'obsolete' in drivers/net/Config.in:
> if [ "$CONFIG_OBSOLETE" = "y" ]; then
> tristate ' SMC 9194 support' CONFIG_SMC9194
> fi
[...]
> Anyway, putting both "CONFIG_OBSOLETE=y" and "CONFIG_SMC9194=y" into
> .config works around that for now, and then driver works fine then.
I'm not sure if the driver is supported elsewhere. If the driver works
fine then we should probably remove the CONFIG_OBSOLETE marker. I
imagine it was put there because it didn't compile for a long time, and
nobody bothered to fix it (or something like that).
Jeff
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