From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] CONFIG_FORCEDETH updates
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:47:01 +0000
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On Sunday 12 February 2006 22:03, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch contains the following possible updates:
> > - let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
> > - remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text:
> >   for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not
> >   how it was developed
>
> Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper
> documentation?  I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast
> ethernet controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid
> supporting a vendor so hostile to Linux.

Although NVIDIA continue to maintain their own driver, I know forcedeth has 
had contributions from at least a couple of NVIDIA employees. Also, I've 
personally used the driver on nForce2, nForce3 and now nForce4 SLI boards and 
it's rock solid.

Adrian's change is a good one, IMO.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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