Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 5 authors, 2010-01-04

Re: dmfe/tulip device id overlap

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2009-11-30 12:46:31

On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 23:07 -0800, David Miller wrote:
From: Brandon Philips <redacted>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:55:12 -0800
quoted
Thus, the patch only lets tulip handle 0x9100 and 0x9102 if __sparc__.

Perhaps someone knows if there is a way to tell the PCI card from the
sparc builtin machine?
We should get both cases working in one of the two drivers,
preferrably Tulip.

That's the outcome I'm trying to say is the only legitimate one.
If the problem is that the drivers are not portable, then this makes
sense.  However, as I understand it, the problem is that the same device
ids have been assigned to significantly different controllers/boards.
In this case it may be better for both of the drivers to claim the
device ids and to distinguish them at probe time.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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