From: Josip Rodin <joy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:11 +0100 > > I'm just Cc:'ing this to the sparc kernel mailing list... > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:21:56PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > > I'd like to get some feedback as to whether anyone is actually using > > the dmfe Davicom kernel module on sparc for 10/100 ethernet. > > > > To the best of my knowledge, Sun never manufactured any > > expansion cards that utilize the Davicom chip and the UltraAX-i2 > > motherboard (Netra X1 and Sunfire V100) is the only Sun > > motherboard that uses the chip. That particular motherboard > > uses the tulip kernel module though, not the dmfe kernel module. > > > > Since the PCI ID of the UltraAX-i2's onboard ethernet > > (1282:9102 - Davicom 9102) matches up with both the dmfe > > module and the tulip module, both modules attempt to load and > > end up causing the network interface to malfunction. > > > > My question is - is anyone actually using the dmfe kernel module > > on sparc and/or would it be ok to set the default to not build the > > dmfe kernel module on sparc? > > > > I presume that the only scenario where anyone would actually be > > using the dmfe kernel module on sparc would be if they've installed > > a PCI NIC originally intended for x86 machines into their sparc > > machine. Better would be to simply remove the conflicting device IDs from the dmfe driver. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
