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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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        Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>, Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)
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Ion Badulescu wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Check again. drivers/net builds a .a, not a .o. Trust me, I've tried.

Sure, but if you are patching anyway, it much better to fix that than
hack space.c :)

-- 
Jeff Garzik       | "The universe is like a safe to which there is a
Building 1024     |  combination -- but the combination is locked up
MandrakeSoft      |  in the safe."    -- Peter DeVries
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