Re: 3c59x & Cat 4003 Ethernet Lockups

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 16:49:51 EST


> shared irq case and Alan Cox has been nice enough to
> inform me that it would be a hard job to rewrite the driver
> to actually be able to share an irq with another peripheral.

It will share an IRQ. It will not correctly handle the case of too much work
when the thing is shared. Fixing that requires changing the 3c59x driver
around a chunk, or removing the error checking which actually is what is
causing the errors!

Alan

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