Re: The networking code in Kernel 2.4

[Hans Grobler <grobh@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Bernhard Jansen wrote:
> I have a little problem with the new networking code in kernel 2.4 . In
> the 2.2 kernels was the dev->tbusy variable to make sure that
> the dev->hard_start_xmit funktion is not called next before the old
> packet is completly sent out.

This may not be a complete answer to your question but you may want
to search a LKML archive for subject "[ANNOUNCE] SOFTNETing". Should be
around Feb of last year.

You may also want to peek at (a Siemens SCC driver)
  http://www.afthd.tu-darmstadt.de/~dg1kjd/pciscc4

-- Hans