Subject: Re: de* vs tlp*
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 09/16/2002 16:28:04
On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 04:24 PM, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>>    Hi folks.  Sorry if this is a dumb question...but it appears that 
>> the
>> de driver and the tlp driver both handle Tulip-based interfaces.  In
>> general cases, should I use one over the other?  Is there anything 
>> that
>> makes one preferable over the other for general applications?
>
> The tlp driver is the one you want to use ... the de driver is 
> deprecated,
> and we'd like to remove it from the tree, eventually.  We're leaving it
> around as an option in case tlp doesn't support some random board, 
> right
> now, but once all that stuff is merged into tlp, de will go.

   Sounds great...thanks Jason!

       -Dave

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