On 4/23/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Okay, I'd assumed there were some specific bug fixes in qfe that might not be in the hme driver.
AFAIK the only real difference between the drivers was the SunTrunking interface that was added to the qfe driver; although there may have also been some other stuff in there that made assumptions about having 4 sibling device nodes.
But if "hme" is ported to GLDv3, would that make it possible for the qfe driver, as such, to just go away? (By virtue of the fact that GLDv3 offers 802.3ad link aggregation?)
Quite probably, except for the old backwards compatibility chestnut. This is not too much of a headache though since, I think, if people were to remove the qfe driver from their system, the driver bindings would pick up hme further down the compatible list. If people want to use SunTrunking though they can just leave the old qfe driver in place.
I'm thinking it would then be fairly straight-forward to convert the code to support a x86 hardware as well, which seems to be a popular request for qfe.
Sure. As I said above, if you convert hme then this can be used to drive qfe boards on x86 boxes and, since SunTrunking was never available for x86, there's no backwards compatibility issue at all. Paul -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
