Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:59:22 -0500 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.9.112.194]:11147 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:59:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE6EF7D.40103@candelatech.com> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:58:53 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard?= Roudier CC: Manfred Spraul , Jeff Garzik , John Fremlin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [POLITICAL] Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012 In-Reply-To: <20011105175245.X1658-100000@gerard> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org G?rard Roudier wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > >>Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>>G?rard Roudier wrote: >>> >>>>different from Tekram adapters. Btw, my Netgear FA311 board is not handled >>>>by the sis driver of linux-2.2.20 and my little finger tells me that it >>>>could be so given a few code addition. >>>> >>>Unless you have a really strange board I haven't seen, NetGear FA311 are >>>the natsemi DP83815/6 chips, handling by either "natsemi" or "fa311" >>>drivers, not "sis900" driver... >>> >>> >>sis900 and natsemi are similar, probably both could be handled with one >>driver. >>e.g. freebsd has one driver for natsemi and sis900. >> >>But I'm not a big fan of huge drivers that handle multiple 99% >>compatible controllers and always break for one controller if you try to >>fix another controller, so I won't try to merge them. >> > > So you would have preferred, for example, to have dozens of different > drivers for SYM53C8XX chips and probably as many for Adaptec aic7xxx ones. > And, probably, one set of different drivers per O/S. And why not one set > per O/S major version and even per adjacent ones of the same O/S. > > Given all the different brands that use similar or compatibles chips, the > way you want drivers to be developped and maintained looks just > unrealistic to me. Jeff has intimate knowledge of the Tulip driver, one of the more complex drivers that supports a bazillion different cards. And also one of the hardest to get (and keep) working on all of the devices it seems.... I think he has a very valid point.... Ben > > G?rard. > > - > 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/ > > -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - 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/