Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary, year old tulip.c in 2.2.0pre1

Viljar Tulit (viljar@ats.cyber.ee)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:26:21 +0200 (EET)


On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
> >
> > And the old (the one in the kernel) doesn't work on A LOT of the common
> > cheap cards out there.
>
> Note that predictably just not working tends to in my opinion be a lot
> more better than unpredictable problems that can result in data loss.
> Reboots certainly fall in the latter category.
>

with new accton card (21140AF chip) old driver dont boot (Oops, when
driver reads non existing EEPROM).

Viljar.

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