Re: Old code in 2.1.x?

Dragos Acostachioaie (dragos@iname.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:43:01 +0300 (EEST)


On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Kurt Fitzner wrote:

> I've noticed a few drivers I use a lot in the 2.1 code have been taken from
> old source trees. The Lance driver is v1.09 in 2.1.121 and v1.14 in 2.0.35.
> It doesn't have module support any more in the 2.1 tree.

Hmm... Same for tulip.c: v0.83 (alpha) in 2.1.120 and v0.88 in 2.0.35.
Quite strange!

>
> Is there a problem with drivers having been split early from the 2.0 tree and
> not getting the updates in 2.1 that they got in 2.0? Is this a "pick a driver
> and get to work" type of effort than I can help with, or are these covered in
> current freezes?
>
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