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On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Pascal Renauld wrote:

> Well, it's just that we had some issues with specific hardware and 
> felt that the hardware was much better supported in the em driver. The 
> current NetBSD driver is 3500 lines against 11400 for the one coming 
> from FreeBSD. The lower layer part of the driver (5000 lines) is 
> dedicated to tuning of the different boards.

Having read the code of the "em" driver many, many times, I'm 
well-aware that it is a large, bloated piece of software.

I'm simply skeptical that it's worth replacing a working driver (that 
several people are happy with), rather than simply taking ideas from 
the other driver and applying them in a reasonable way in the existing 
one.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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