On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 08:19, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > On Saturday 26 July 2003 09:57 pm, John Haywood wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > > Ensure you are not using the '8139too' driver. Its a little buggy and > > > this shows during high bandwidth usage. BTW Donald Becker is THE linux > > > network card driver guru, this site is predominantly based on his work > > > and explains where i am coming from. > > > http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html > > Given that Donald Becker has completely panned the 8139too driver, why is it > included in the Mandrake distribution? I would think that they'd only want > the better code, instead of a module denounced as "buggy" or at best a > sub-optimal implementation. >
Two reasons I can think of. It's expected by people so they get less hassle including it than removing it. It's more of a pain to remove it from the kernel than it's worth. Again note that this is opinion not fact. I don't speak for them. james
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