Re: realtek 8139

[Marco Gerards]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>    Did you make sure that there are no changes to the rtl8139 driver
>    where lost?
>
> No.  Nor do I plan on checking that, I doubt that Becker removed old
> drivers if they worked.  Also, as I said, this is the latest driver
> for any rtl8139 card, so this is what is in Linux too.

It should not be hard to update most drivers to the current linux 2.0
drivers.  I can do that when I am really bored someday.  But I would
appreciate it if other people would do this instead.

>    Please write a changelog and send in a clean patch so it can be
>    committed after Rian (and I) tested it.
>
> I would like to see a bit more testing on it before anything is done
> with it.  I don't have a realtek card, so I can't do that.

I have some so don't worry about that. :)

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Marco