Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] CONFIG_FORCEDETH updates

On Sunday 12 February 2006 22:03, Lee Revell wrote:

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

quoted

This patch contains the following possible updates:
- let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
- remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text:
  for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not
  how it was developed

Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper
documentation?  I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast
ethernet controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid
supporting a vendor so hostile to Linux.

Although NVIDIA continue to maintain their own driver, I know forcedeth has 
had contributions from at least a couple of NVIDIA employees. Also, I've 
personally used the driver on nForce2, nForce3 and now nForce4 SLI boards and 
it's rock solid.

Adrian's change is a good one, IMO.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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