Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:12:33 +0200
From: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
To: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@gmail.com>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Atro.Tossavainen@helsinki.fi,
       torben.mathiasen@compaq.com,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel TI TLAN driver
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On Mon, Apr 25 2005, Ganesh Venkatesan wrote:
> In general, just adding the device id to a driver in order to enable
> it for a new device is not sufficient. They may (in most cases, will)
> be additional logic that is needed in the driver to correctly enable
> the  new device. If this is the case, I'd expect the patched driver to
> fail on open even with the 2.6 kernel.
>

Absolutely, but the TLAN parts are usually quite alike. Even when the EISA
support was added, only the probing was changed to accomodate those cards.

I remember trying the TLAN's on an alpha a few years ago, and IIRC the 64bit
support was lacking badly. I know some of this has been changed in the 2.6
version of the driver, but it may not work very well since so few people use
this combination.

Thanks,
Torben
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