Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:05:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:05:13 -0400 Received: from trained-monkey.org ([209.217.122.11]:44810 "EHLO trained-monkey.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:05:13 -0400 To: kwijibo@zianet.com Cc: Mark Hahn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3com 3c996b-t support? References: <3D3EE4B1.3000809@zianet.com> <3D3EED72.1080809@zianet.com> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 24 Jul 2002 14:08:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: kwijibo@zianet.com's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:09:54 -0600" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 912 Lines: 18 >>>>> "Steve" == kwijibo writes: Steve> Jes Sorensen wrote: >> driver which is probably the worst driver code we have seen in the >> Linux community for the last 5 years. Sure you can run it, but >> don't come back and complain when you run into trouble. You will be >> a lot better off using the tg3 driver, or better yet, getting a NIC >> thats less buggy. Steve> Is the NIC hardware buggy or is it just the bcm5700 drivers? The hardware is buggy. The bcm5700 drivers are written in such terrible C, you can in fact argue whether you'd call it C, that it's totally impossible to debug the code anyway. Who knows whats hidden in there. Jes - 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/