* Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <[email protected]> [2014-09-14 23:18]: > Chris Cappuccio <[email protected]> writes: > > Stuart Henderson [[email protected]] wrote: > >> > >> I don't think the driver manuals can sensibly go into enough detail > >> in many cases, with some NICs there are differences between revisions, > >> some drivers cover a huge range of adapters, etc. > > > > It might be nice to get maximum MTUs for various chip revisions stated > > in their respective man pages. > > Yes but this needs work - even more work if an audit of all drivers > "gets" done to make all manpages accurate. I'll shut up about this > since it looks like a big task in my eyes.
A too big task when you add the maintainance. We've tried this before in other occasions, we cannot document hardware quirks/features reasonably in our documentation for widespread, pretty generic hardware - we just have no chance to keep it in sync with reality. jca/chris, if you're so much after it, I propose you start a webpage somewhere collecting and maintaining that information. If it is still accurate in a couple of years we can have this duscussion again :) -- Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
