[vortex] Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 Dual 3c59x

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

> My driver will find a 0x9807 card using the fall-back rule for finding
> 3c980 boards  (matching any 0x980* number).  The regular 2.4 PCI
> detection code doesn't have the ability to match a range of values.

IMHO we should not just add this kind of interfaces. The EPROM is broken; 
either the driver should detect this case and use some 
known-to-be-good-in-most-cases values (in which case the fall-back rule 
is useful) and say it loud or just don't recognize it, as it is now with 
the LK driver.

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Bogdan Costescu

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