>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> writes: Donald> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, [euc-kr] Kim DaeHo wrote: >> Could anyone explain me how to port gigabit NIC driver from the >> 2.2.x to 2.0.36 ? Donald> .. >> PS. I'm so sorry that my last mail is encoded base64. Donald> That echoing silence wasn't from bad mail encoding, it was Donald> because demonstrating an interest in backwards compatibility Donald> or API stability pretty much disqualifies someone from future Donald> kernel development. Not at all, base64 encoded email goes naturally straight to /dev/null unread. On the subject, porting a current Gigabit driver to 2.0.x will be a fair amount of work. I had originally tought about porting the acenic driver to 2.0.x but fairly early on decided it simply wasn't worth the effort due to the not very exciting SMP support in 2.0.x and the fact that the API has changed significantly between 2.0.x and 2.4.x. Keeping things compatible between 2.2.x and 2.4.x is hard enough work as it is. Kim, if you want Gigabit Ethernet I'd strongly recommend you consider porting whatever it is you have that requires 2.0.x onto 2.2.x or later. Jes - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
