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Re: comx drivers in 2.6

To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: comx drivers in 2.6
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:42:16 -0400
Cc: Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@xxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
It looks like the comx drivers never got updated for 2.5/2.6.  Some
obvious issues are:
        - lots of use of /proc files without setting the owner field.
        - still using cli/sti
        - no SMP locking on the linked list (which could be changed to list 
macros)
          of hardware and protocols.

Just bumped into this while trying to inspect for all the last possible
broken usage of net_device structure.  It is too far behind to address
those issues.


Submit a patch to mark these CONFIG_OBSOLETE. AFAIK nobody has cared for most of them since 2.2... (munich is an exception)

        Jeff




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