Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal <Md> is there any reason to keep building the de4x5 driver, which has been blacklisted by default by udev since forever? <trave11er> i think it was relevant for alpha, there were two drivers claiming the same PCI IDs (de4x5 and tulip?) <trave11er> they had cards which would work with one but not the other <trave11er> vorlon would remember :-) <Md> trave11er: correct about de4x5 and tulip, but the driver is built for de4x5 as well and is blacklisted for all architectures <vorlon> s/they/I/ <vorlon> I don't think you'd want to build it on any architecture except alpha... which we're not building for <trave11er> the chances of people still encountering such problems are probably pretty slim by now <vorlon> still pretty high if they're running alpha; almost zero otherwise <Md> and de4x5 on i386 has no aliases in modules.alias so it cannot be autoloaded anyway <vorlon> yep <vorlon> so I would definitely stop building it. If and when someone comes along who needs it again, they can work on getting tulip fixed instead
-- ciao, Marco
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