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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:40:29 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com> To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com> CC: Roberto Nibali <ratz@...gphish.ch>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@....com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, saw@....sw.com.sg Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled eepro100 removal Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > Roberto Nibali wrote: > >>>> Sounds sane to me. My overall opinion on eepro100 removal is that >>>> we're not there yet. Rare problem cases remain where e100 fails >>>> but eepro100 works, and it's older drivers so its low priority for >>>> everybody. >>>> >>>> Needs to happen, though... >>>> >>> It seems that several Tyan Opteron base system that were using IPMI >>> add on card. the IPMI card share intel 100Mhz nic onboard. you need >>> to use eepro100 instead of e100 otherwise the e100 will shutdown OOB >>> (out of Band) connection for IPMI when shut down the OS. >>> >> I find it hard to believe that something as common as IPMI in >> conjunction with the IPMI technology wasn't tested in Intel's lab. >> From my experience with Intel Server boards, onboard IPMI (all offered >> versions) and e100/e1000 NICs, I've never ever experienced any >> problems operating the BMC over the NIC. Also, I don't quite >> understand you point about the "IPMI card sharing the 100Mbit/s NIC" >> onboard? What exactly is shared? >> > > It's a legit problem, but only with this *one* system. > > Of course the eepro100 driver is not taking a lot of maintenance either, removing it is not critical as long as there is a legitimate need to support old hardware. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@....com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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