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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: if_ep.c driver brokeness (was Re: 3Com (589b) troubles) 
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Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 11:49:08 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>As Nate Williams wrote:
>
>> Actually, this change broke the ep driver for almost every card.  If
>
>The interesting thing is that there are also (few? many?) people where
>it actually improved things.  Anyway, a better fix is certainly needed
>(one that satisfies all people, not just a few only), so back it out
>and suggest another one. :)

I suggest we find someone to rewrite the driver from scratch.  It *really*
needs it.  I would, but my queue currently looks like:

Generic SCSI layer enhancements
Advansys device driver
Revamp of the Buslogic driver
Cleanup of our device configuration code.

>-- 
>cheers, J"org
>
>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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