Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
a) drop 8139cp (in preference to 8139too), eepro100 (in preference to
e100), dmfe (in preference to tulip), xircom_tulip_cb (in preference
to xircom_cb, and it doesn't load anyway because of missing symbols).
If you disagree because this breaks your network access, please tell.
b) apply Debian patch (attached) that causes hotplug to try loading
all matching PCI drivers instead of stopping at the first one (even if
it is blacklisted). Amend the blacklist. Requires testing by owners of
RTL-8139C+ cards for which both drivers work.
What is more correct here?
Hrm. That's a tough choice. It seems that whenever I decide to drop
support for a certain device, someone shows up and says, 'why isn't
there support for my device?'. So, I suppose we should at least test out
option 'b' first before we just drop those modules (with the possible
exception of the xircom_tulip_cb module, which as you pointed out,
doesn't load.)
OK, removing xircom_tulip_cb and adding this hotplug patch. But:
8139too is supposed to work for all 8139-based based network cards
eepro100 is deprecated upstream: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/27/254
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