Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:52:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:52:37 -0400 Received: from chiara.elte.hu ([157.181.150.200]:25609 "HELO chiara.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 02:52:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:50:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: To: jamal Cc: Simon Kirby , Linus Torvalds , Ben Greear , , Alexey Kuznetsov , Robert Olsson , Benjamin LaHaise , , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, jamal wrote: > I think you can save yourself a lot of pain today by going to a > "better driver"/hardware. Switch to a tulip based board; [...] This is not an option in many cases. (eg. where a company standardizes on something non-tulip, or due to simple financial/organizational reasons.) What you say is the approach i see in the FreeBSD camp frequently: "use these [limited set of] wonderful cards and drivers, the rest sucks hardware-design-wise and we dont really care about them", which elitist attitude i strongly disagree with. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/