>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes: Richard> Jes Sorensen writes: >> 2.0.36 reliawhat?? If you are looking for GigE performance you are >> likely to want SMP and SMP in 2.0.36 is absolutely not realiable. Richard> There's a strong perception that 2.0.36 is robust (even Richard> though SMP isn't). I see people pushing for XYZ driver to be Richard> added to 2.0.3x for this reason. I assume if Kim is willing Richard> to back-port the GigE driver to 2.0.36, the option of Richard> forward-porting some other driver was also considered. True, from a driver maintainers point of view I'd just note that I have no interest in adding 2.0.x compat patches to for instance the acenic driver. Richard> As for SMP "requirements": perhaps Kim has a 1 GHz Athalon Richard> and figures that should do nicely :-) Hmmm I thought I read a mail from Alan a few minutes ago stating that 2.2.x didn't even support the Athlon? Jes - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
