Re: patch to drivers/net/8390.c

Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
30 Nov 1998 15:21:51 +0100


>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> writes:

Mikael> 2.1.130 (actually one of the pre-patches) added an unused
Mikael> local variable "ei_local" to
Mikael> drivers/net/8390.c:NS8390_trigger_send(). Since the variable
Mikael> is unused (proof by compilation on x86/UP), I'm assuming this
Mikael> was a mistake. If so, please apply the included patch.

And this is wrong!

The variable is needed for machines which have the registers for the
8390 memory mapped!

Jes

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