[tulip] Most ethernets record?

[Ben Greear]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Ben Greear writes:
>  > As recent as the 2.2.19 kernel, the D-LINK 4-port cards did not do
>  > auto-negotiation, or even fixed 100bt-FD correctly (I had to force
>  > them to 100bt-HD, which thankfully worked, at least.)
>  >
>  > If by working fine
> 
> Donald's latest driver does not appear in any kernel.

I am aware, but I have also tried manually patching it in, and
it still failed.

> 
> Donald does not know how to merge his latest code to
> the kernel maintainers.  It has been several years since
> he has merged a driver into the main tree, most of the
> time other people do it because they are so frustrated with
> how broken the driver in the main tree is.

Yes, there seems to be a major pissing contest between who can
be the more hard-headed about this kind of thing.  The end
result, unfortunately, is broken drivers that are making my
life, as well as many others, a complete pain in the arse
when it comes to doing any type of high-performance networking
on Linux.  We have all these great routing/firewalling technologies,
but try finding a NIC/driver that can hold up under the strain!!!

I don't think the load can be completely dumped on Becker though,
because I have been pretty dissapointed with my own efforts to get
my VLAN patch added to the kernel.  The patch process can definately
seem like a black hole at times...

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