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Re: Why 2 82559 drivers?
- To: asselin at us dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Why 2 82559 drivers?
- From: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:53:05 -0400
- CC: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <OF286AA5D4.0A3115E0-ON85256AC3.0072A363@raleigh.ibm.com>
>>>>> Andre Asselin writes:
> I was looking over the ethernet drivers recently, and noticed that there
> are two drivers for the Intel 82559:
> \packages\devs\eth\arm\iq80310\current\src\if_iq80310.c and
> \packages\devs\eth\intel\i82559\current\src\if_i82559.c. I'm curious: why
> are there two drivers for this chip? Is the 80310 so different that it
> needed its own version of the driver?
The iq80310 driver was cloned from th eebsa driver before we created
the more generic 82559 driver. There's no reason for two drivers other
than no one has had a chance to change over the iq80310.
--Mark