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Subject: Re: Network-related device drivers and MPSAFEty: status, and plans
 for 7.0
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Robert Watson wrote:
> if_el        Ethernet driver for 3Com Etherlink 3C501 devices.
>         Mutxes present and exercised, not marked MPSAFE.

This is an 8-bit ISA card that was a piss-poor-performer even when it 
was new. Please don't waste developer resources on things like this!


/Martin