Re: NE2000 driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:03:43 +0100 (BST)


> I would recommend enabling that block of code by default unless there's
> some compelling reason why that would be a bad idea. Analysis and
> comments appreciated.

Well one perfectly good reason is that it slows every other card down. Another
is that we don't know if it will upset some other clones. Linux can't spend
its entire time bandaging crap vendor hardware. At best it'll simply
make the vendor shift more and more complete junk.

Alan