On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Scott
Sorry to be coming in late, but I'm curious about why this work is being
submitted as a separate driver, rather than as patches against the
driver
from Dustin McIntire that was added a few months ago. Is the intention
to
go forward with two different drivers for these chips?
I was waiting for someone to ask this!
This driver has been developed by SMSC & ARM, and has several advantages
over the already merged smc911x:
- The current driver is arm specific, our smsc911x driver is tested and
supported on arm, sh, i386
- smsc911x contains support for the new LAN921x family, as well as LAN911x
- smsc911x contains important workarounds for currently known hardware
issues
- It's shorted, and I believe the coding style to be cleaner and easier to
follow.
so I'm presenting this as an alternative. Thoughts?
I think the main concern that my co-workers here at SOMA Networks and I
have is that having two drivers dilutes the community effort. There's
also the fact that smc911x seems to have DMA support, which smsc911x does
not. Unless there are plans to enhance smsc911x with DMA support, it
would seem to me to make more sense to apply the LAN921x support and
hardware workaround changes to smc911x.
Scott
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