On Sunday 12 February 2006 22:03, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 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. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
