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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:55:51 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: hotplug e1000 failed after 32 times
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Li Shaohua wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the NIC driver, but this problem really is
> annoying. The gurus, please consider a solution. It's not an uncommon
> case. I believe it's common in a big system with hotplug support. I can
> understand why the driver doesn't support more than 32 a card, but one
> card with 32 times hotplug failed is a little ugly.


There should be no problem at all with the driver supporting 32 NICs... 
  in fact if it cannot support at least 99 NICs, I would consider that a 
bug.

	Jeff


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