Re: Call for evaluation: new Intel eepro/100+, eepro100/S open source driver (but not GPL). Is it stable, neat, or on it's way

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 10:24:32 EST


> Looked at the driver, doesn't set IFF_RUNNING to reflect the link state.
> Might not be a good candidate for things like channel bonding.

Having had a look at it the driver is pretty clean for a cross platform driver,
its got uglies but most are caused by that. I think the best use of the info
is fixing the existing GPL driver to know about the hardware bugs they
document, the copy-checksum support and other bits.

Alan

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