Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c

From: David S. Miller
Date: Fri Nov 18 2005 - 04:08:00 EST


From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:01:59 +0000

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:02AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/eepro100.c driver.
> >
> > Is there any reason why it should be kept?
>
> Tt's the only driver which works correctly on ARM CPUs. e100 is
> basically buggy. This has been discussed here on lkml and more
> recently on linux-netdev. If anyone has any further questions
> please read the archives of those two lists.

Yes, sadly this is still true and therefore the eepro100 driver
needs to stick around.
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