On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:

Heh, I have been wanting to clean up the driver hierachy for a very long
time, it is really silly that we keep copying old drivers and change 50
lines of code to make them run on a new machine. This is the case with
the 8530 driver, but even worse for the Lance Ethernet one.

Linux' advertisement should become: we have more Lance drivers than supported
architectures.

Last time I counted them, I needed more fingers.

Greetings,

						Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium


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