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In-reply-to: Dag-Erling Coidan Sm,Ax(Brgrav's message of "29 Jul 1998 10:54:05
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Subject: Re: Call for testers for 3c905B driver
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DES <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> writes:
>Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> writes:
>> Note that the vortex driver (if_vx.c) already supports the 3c900 and
>> original 3c905 cards, but it uses PIO to transfer packets to and from
>> the NIC's RAM. My driver uses bus master DMA instead. If you want to
>> use my driver instead of the vortex driver for the 3c900 and 3c905
>> cards, you should edit /sys/pci/if_vx_pci.c and comment out the
>> portion of vx_pci_probe() that checks the PCI device IDs for the
>> Etherlink XL cards, otherwise the vortex driver may be assigned to
>> them instead of mine.
>What's wrong with just leaving it out of the kernel?

If you simply get rid of the vx driver, support for 3C59[0257] drivers
is lost. Only its probe code for 3C90[05] must be omitted from the vx
driver.

- nao

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