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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)
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Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Well.. Space.c is a dinozaur. However, this is the 2.2 series and no more
> surgery will happen on this kernel, at least normally.
> 
> Have you tried loading the drivers as modules? You might have more luck
> with that approach. Space.c was designed at a time when having 4 NIC's in
> a PC was "pushing the limits"...

2.2.recent has module_init/exit, so you don't even need Space.c.

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