eepro100 1.0.3 patch

Chris Evans chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
Sat Oct 17 18:53:18 1998


On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Not crashing is the operative word, and while a problem it's still more
> acceptable to just lose the link. I still hope somebody finds out why that
> would happen. 

See my previous message about problems we're having with 3c59x, ne2k and
now tulip(!!!) cards. Maybe we have a generic problem with all the net
drivers under extreme load. The ne2k driver crashes the machine outright,
the tulip driver just loses the link. Sigh. This is under 2.0.x btw.

Chris