Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/eepro100.c

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:08:02 -0800 (PST)

From: Russell King <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:01:59 +0000

> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:33:02AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/eepro100.c driver.
> > 
> > Is there any reason why it should be kept?
> 
> Tt's the only driver which works correctly on ARM CPUs.  e100 is
> basically buggy.  This has been discussed here on lkml and more
> recently on linux-netdev.  If anyone has any further questions
> please read the archives of those two lists.

Yes, sadly this is still true and therefore the eepro100 driver
needs to stick around.