Re: dmfe/tulip kernel module poll

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:11 +0100

> 
> I'm just Cc:'ing this to the sparc kernel mailing list...
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:21:56PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote:
> > I'd like to get some feedback as to whether anyone is actually using
> > the dmfe Davicom kernel module on sparc for 10/100 ethernet.
> > 
> > To the best of my knowledge, Sun never manufactured any
> > expansion cards that utilize the Davicom chip and the UltraAX-i2
> > motherboard (Netra X1 and Sunfire V100) is the only Sun
> > motherboard that uses the chip. That particular motherboard
> > uses the tulip kernel module though, not the dmfe kernel module.
> > 
> > Since the PCI ID of the UltraAX-i2's onboard ethernet
> > (1282:9102 - Davicom 9102) matches up with both the dmfe
> > module and the tulip module, both modules attempt to load and
> > end up causing the network interface to malfunction.
> > 
> > My question is - is anyone actually using the dmfe kernel module
> > on sparc and/or would it be ok to set the default to not build the
> > dmfe kernel module on sparc?
> > 
> > I presume that the only scenario where anyone would actually be
> > using the dmfe kernel module on sparc would be if they've installed
> > a PCI NIC originally intended for x86 machines into their sparc
> > machine.

Better would be to simply remove the conflicting device IDs
from the dmfe driver.