Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'd like to point out that (at least) the network driver sundance.c has weird
>flaws when trying to use more than MAX_UNITS (8) cards at the same time. Since
>
Smileys nonwithstanding, you need to include far more information
Please define "weird flaws"... explicitly.
>this driver can be used for DFE-580TX 4 port network card it is really easy to
>get more than 8 ports :-)
>In fact the driver does check against MAX_UNITS, but does _not_ fail if you go
>through the roof. Instead you can expect really interesting ifconfig-outputs
>;-)
>IMHO it should check and fail. I wonder what other card drivers do in such a
>case ...
>
>
Other card drivers handle this case just fine. The expected behavior is
that module options will only support up to MAX_UNITS of certain
arguments, but beyond that nothing is affected at all.
Jeff
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