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On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:13 +0200, Elmer Joandi wrote:
> Well, about arlan driver - I am sorry, but :
> 1. I lack the device and I even lack an installed 32-bit linux to compile it.
> 2. The card has been out of production for 10 years
> 3. I can not imagine anybody using it for anything sensible anymore.
> 
> 
> 
> To get rid of warnings the seems a need for a correct typecast to be
> used in 2 places and a "static" added to a declaration.

Indeed, on closer look this is harmless. Wasn't sure about the address
space warnings.

> However, as use of this driver seems to be so rare, I would suggest
> marking it experimental or something like that, i.e. retire it at slow
> rate.

Wow yes, I had to really dig in to figure out whether or not the code
was correct. This driver uses netdev_boot_setup_check() and is listed in
drivers/net/Space.c and other things I hadn't even _heard_ about until
now...

johannes

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