Hi Scott > Sorry to be coming in late, but I'm curious about why this work is being > submitted as a separate driver, rather than as patches against the driver > from Dustin McIntire that was added a few months ago. Is the intention to > go forward with two different drivers for these chips?
I was waiting for someone to ask this! This driver has been developed by SMSC & ARM, and has several advantages over the already merged smc911x: - The current driver is arm specific, our smsc911x driver is tested and supported on arm, sh, i386 - smsc911x contains support for the new LAN921x family, as well as LAN911x - smsc911x contains important workarounds for currently known hardware issues - It's shorted, and I believe the coding style to be cleaner and easier to follow. so I'm presenting this as an alternative. Thoughts? Regards, -- Steve Glendinning SMSC GmbH m: +44 777 933 9124 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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
