[vortex] Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 Dual 3c59x

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> 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.

It's not clear that the EEPROM is broken.  I believe that 0x9807 is just
a new ID for a 3c980-on-motherboard implementation, similar to the
previous minor changes in product ID.  For instance the 3c905 series used
0x905*, with a different number for each implementation/transceiver
combination.

I've used the pci-scan matching code for about 2.5 years with
essentially no interface changes.  It has been much more stable,
functional and compatible than the kernel PCI matching code.

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