It was amusing that linux was able to make use of this 1980's
technology on machines long past its intended lifespan, but
it probably should go now.
To set some context, the 3c501 was designed in the 1980's to be
used on 8088 PC-XT 8bit ISA machines. It was built using a large
number of discrete TTL components and truly looks like a relic
of the ancient past before large scale integration was common.
But from a functional point of view, the real issue, as stated
in the (also obsolete) Ethernet-HowTo, is that "...the 3c501 can
only do one thing at a time -- while you are removing one packet
from the single-packet buffer it cannot receive another packet,
nor can it receive a packet while loading a transmit packet."
You know things are not good when the Kconfig help text suggests
you make a cron job doing a ping every minute.
Hardware that old and crippled is simply not going to be used by
anyone in a time where 10 year old 100Mbit PCI cards (that are
still functional) are largely give-away items.
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
We threw away the microchannel support, but the removal wasn't
completely trivial since there was namespace overlap with the
machine check support, and hence some orphaned dependencies
survived the deletion. This attempts to sweep those up and
send them to the bit-bucket.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The 3com driver for 3c59x requires ioport_map. Since not all
architectures support IO port mapping make 3c59x dependent on HAS_IOPORT.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The reorganization of the driver layout in drivers/net
left behind some stale paths in comments and in Kconfig
help text. Bring them up to date. No actual change to
any code takes place here.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
CC: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
MII Kconfig option is apart of the core networking drivers and
by default NET_CORE is enabled so drivers selecting MII will
have MII enabled as well. It was found using the randconfig
option during testing, MII would be selected but NET_CORE
could be disabled. This caused a dependency error.
Resolved the dependency by selecting NET_CORE when MII is
selected.
Reported-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Based on finds for Stephen Rothwell, where current defconfig's
enable a ethernet driver and it is not compiled due to the newly
added NET_VENDOR_* component of Kconfig.
This patch enables all the "new" Kconfig options so that current
defconfig's will continue to compile the expected drivers. In
addition, by enabling all the new Kconfig options does not add
any un-expected options.
CC: Stephen Rothwll <sfc@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Based on feedback from Alan Cox, the acenic driver moved to
drivers/net/ethernet/alteon/ and made the necessary Kconfig and
Makefile changes.
CC: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Moves the 3Com drivers into drivers/net/ethernet/3com/ and the necessary
Kconfig and Makefile changes.
Did not move the following drivers becuase they use a non-3Com
chipset: 3c503, 3c505, 3c507, 3c523 and 3c527
CC: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
CC: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
CC: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
CC: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
CC: David Hinds <dahinds@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Paul Gortmaker