Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] CONFIG_FORCEDETH updates

From: Lee Revell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:03:36 -0500

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:52 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch contains the following possible updates:
> - let FORCEDETH no longer depend on EXPERIMENTAL
> - remove the "Reverse Engineered" from the option text:
>   for the user it's important which hardware the driver supports, not
>   how it was developed

Is this driver as stable as one that was developed with proper
documentation?  I prefer to know that something as elementary as a fast
ethernet controller had to be reverse engineered so I can avoid
supporting a vendor so hostile to Linux.

Lee