On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 17:49, Jeff Garzik wrote:
quoted
Whilst on the subject of magic numbers in net drivers, did we ever get
to the bottom of 2.4's ChangeSet 1.587.9.20
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/2.5.48/split-dj1/net-cs89x0-media-corrections.diff
IIRC it came from -ac tree without explanation, and I think akpm said it
broke stuff. Since it has an alive maintainer (akpm), I would rather
let Alan and Andrew fight it out :) Whatever they decide is fine with
me for 2.5.
I've had no reports I remember about it breaking stuff, and several that
it fixed stuff. It also seems to match the documentation. Its been in -ac
for ages