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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: if_ed(2)
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> 
> 
> Why does the GENERIC kernel contain ed0 and ed1 built in?

It has a lot of other network cards it is probing during the
autoconfigure phase. ed0 and ed1 are for WD cards having different
default i/o addresses.

> 
> Not many people use two network cards (those who do can always build
> another kernel).  With the addition of the boot time configuration

Purpose is not running two cards simultaneously. That would requires
configuring the cards at different IRQs anyway.


> wouldn't just one ed driver suffice for most people?
> 
> Koshy
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de