Grant Grundler wrote:
ISTR there was a time when tulip would compete with de4x5 for devices.
tulip is the preferred driver. That's clearly no longer the case
and perhaps both distro's need to revisit this.
The only reason why de4x5 still exists is that the /tulip/ driver fails
to work on a few chips like the 21142 (43?) shipped in various alpha boxen.
de4x5 needs to go away, it's been unmaintained for ages, doesn't support
any of the new hotplug APIs.
de2104x is a "work in progress".
That's why it's marked "EXPERIMENTAL" in the Kconfig file.
It's not a work in progress, it works just fine for most people (the few
that are left).
Last I heard, there was a problem with non-twisted-pair stuff, but
that's about it.
'experimental' is generally a poorly maintained marker.
Jeff
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