One driver doesn't much help, especially not this late in the game. I want
a 2.2 out the door.
Then stop talking about turning the network driver interface upside
down by changing the interface. Instead let's just fix the bugs and
get this out the door, do it right with massive changes in 2.3.x
For the record, the external thing you must tell the upper layers
about is the 'tbusy' state, "my queue is full", "don't give me packets
to send". So just "removing" tbusy is not as simple as you would like
it to be. I'd be really surprised if you obtained a working kernel in
this manner.
You will break more than you fix by trying to do what you propose
right now. And if you think Becker is unresponsive right now, wait
until you see how nicely he'll work with us if you zap out two members
in the device structure all of his drivers reference.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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