On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Scott,
I think the main concern that my co-workers here at SOMA Networks
and I have is that having two drivers dilutes the community effort.
There's also the fact that smc911x seems to have DMA support, which
smsc911x does not. Unless there are plans to enhance smsc911x with
DMA support, it would seem to me to make more sense to apply the
LAN921x support and hardware workaround changes to smc911x.
I have kept this driver simple for now, focussing on stable support for
multiple platforms. While arm is certainly popular, we also have a large
number of customers on sh, x86 and others, and currently there is no
in-kernel support (DMA or not) for these people.
Many of our customers use our proprietary drivers (which support DMA on
many platforms), and we would like to migrate them over to a standard
in-kernel driver - it would make support easier and everyone can benefit
from ongoing driver improvements. The DMA code within these proprietary
drivers is the next target for submission, although I would like to defer
additional complexity until we are all happy with the current PIO-only
implementation.
Okay, I guess I'll shut up. We're going to stick with smc911x for now
and will probably submit some patches to it in the near future. If
smsc911x gets accepted into mainline by Jeff and gains DMA support, we
may reconsider.
Scott
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