Re: Tulip driver overhaul (was Re: SMP deadlock in drivers/net/tulip.c kernel ver 2.3.47 -- here's a patch.)

From: Andrew Morton (morton@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 03:34:50 EST

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> As many of the PCI net drivers in the 2.3.x kernel are unmaintained, I
> started hacking on the tulip driver.

I'm looking at the cs89x0 ISA driver. Nothing radical - SMP locking,
handling kmalloc failures, integration of some enhancements from Cirrus,
testing.

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