Comment 6 for bug 12840

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:24:56 +0000
From: Matthew Wilcox <email address hidden>
To: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: base: de4x5.ko generates endless loop of errors with phobos p430tx

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:09:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I think de4x5 should be a driver of last resort. Tulip should always
> > be preferred to drive a given piece of hardware. I wouldn't shed any
> > tears if we stopped shipping de4x5 by default -- it's caused no end of
> > problems on parisc and ia64.
>
> OTOH it's the only module that can drive the ethernet card of my a500
> (hppa).

I think you have that backwards. de4x5 *doesn't* work on hppa whereas
tulip does.

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