Subject: Re: Reasons behind HAVE_TX_TIMEOUT

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:31:54 -0400

Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just curious, why do we have an unconditional #define in netdevice.h for 
> HAVE_TX_TIMEOUT, and some drivers (e.g. xirc2ps_cs) using it 
> conditionally as if it might be disabled on some builds?
> 
> There are other similar defines in netdevice.h too.

Ancient back-compat defines, for 2.2-era, pre-softnet code where 
tx_timeout did not exist.

	Jeff