Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2007-08-07

Re: [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver

From: <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-30 18:32:26

Hi Peter,
What's the problem with Dustin's driver? It seems to work fine here
with a lan9117. Why not just add lan921x support to the existing
driver?
I have heard Dustin's driver works very well on PXA, but on others it 
doesn't even compile (hence why it depends on ARCH_PXA).

Dustin's driver was based on the smc91x code, but these two ethernet 
devices share nothing other than a similar name.  smsc911x is a new, 
completely platform-independent driver with workarounds for several 
hardware issues, and it doesn't suffer from quite as much macro abuse :-)

Regards,
--
Steve Glendinning
SMSC GmbH
m: +44 777 933 9124
e: steve.glendinning@smsc.com
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