On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:25 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:55:59PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > > The problem is the following: is the e100 driver available in all kernel > > flavours/versions ? > > If yes, then it is safe to blacklist it in hotplug directly. > > If not, then it is not safe to do it in hotplug because it would > > blacklist eepro100 which would be the only working module on some > > flavours/versions. > > eepro100 is the older driver, but e100 has been available since early > 2.4, so it's there in all debian kernels. e100 supports much more > hardware than eepro100 (like the one on the mainboard of one of my > boxens) and is actively maintained by Intel while eepro100 only gets > odd fixes. Unfortunately there's some older hardware where eepro100 > works and e100 doesn't, and debugging this is really hard because the > hardware has gazillions of slightly incompatible variants. Worse: debian kernels 2.4.18 didn't have it yet, and a lot of Woody system probably still have this version.
-- Jerome Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BeezNest
