Re: [git patches] net driver updates

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 15:51:30 EST


From: Marin Mitov <mitov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:34:01 +0200

> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 12:59:04 am you wrote:
> > Divy Le Ray wrote:
> > >> From: "Divy Le Ray" <divy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:57:08 -0800
> > >>
> > >>> The driver is cxgb3 here, it uses LLTX.
> > >>
> > >> That's extremely unfortunate, hopefully you can update it to
> > >> use a model like tg3 and others use. LLTX is a lost cause
> > >> for hardware device drivers, and in fact we'd like to remove
> > >> it tree wide eventually.
>
> Just for info: loopback.c uses it too :-)

I know, as I said: "for hardware device drivers" it's a lost
cause. Loopback is a software device.

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