On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:28:46PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > This patch adds support for the PLX USB3380 and USB3382. > > This driver is based on the driver from the manufacturer. > > Since USB338X is register compatible with NET2280, I thought that it > would be better to include this hardware into net2280 driver. > > Manufacturer's driver only supported the USB33X, did not follow the > Kernel Style and contain some trivial errors. This patch has tried to > address this issues. > > This patch has only been tested on USB338x hardware, but the merge has > been done trying to not affect the behaviour of NET2280. > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> anybody with net2280, please give me a Tested-by so I'm sure there are no regressions caused by this patch. One question though, is it worth to use the legacy mode just to get register compatibility ? What are the drawbacks of using legacy mode ? Is any feature missing when we use legacy mode ? cheers -- balbi
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