| To: | jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 |
| From: | Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:50:30 +0200 (CEST) |
| Cc: | Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.GSO.4.30.0110032057000.8016-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Reply-to: | <mingo@xxxxxxx> |
| Sender: | owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, jamal wrote:
> I think you can save yourself a lot of pain today by going to a
> "better driver"/hardware. Switch to a tulip based board; [...]
This is not an option in many cases. (eg. where a company standardizes on
something non-tulip, or due to simple financial/organizational reasons.)
What you say is the approach i see in the FreeBSD camp frequently: "use
these [limited set of] wonderful cards and drivers, the rest sucks
hardware-design-wise and we dont really care about them", which elitist
attitude i strongly disagree with.
Ingo
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