Re: Status of drivers pi2.c pt.c

From: Niall Parker (cjuvxgix.hvlchrtsnl@relay.tunkki.fi)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 21:32:33 EEST

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    On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:14:06PM +0200, Hans Grobler wrote:
    > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, John Ackermann wrote:
    > > > These two drivers are listed in the drivers/net/hamradio/Makefile, but
    > > > there are no entries for them in drivers/net/hamradio/Config.in.
    > > >
    > > > Are these two drivers suppose to work, or are they obsolete?
    > >
    > > The pi and pt drivers have been replaced by the dmascc driver, which is
    > > a more generalized driver (it works with several different 8530 SCC
    > > boards). The references to pi and pt are probably just leftovers.
    >
    > Thanks. I'm working on a 2.2 -> 2.4 update patch and will add this as
    > well.
    >
    > -- Hans

    I just switched one of our rf routers (using a PI2 card) from 2.0.37 with
    the pi driver to 2.2.13 with the dmascc driver. While it seems to run OK
    on a P75, the new stuff didn't seem to work as well as the pi driver on
    a couple of 386's ... (lost packets due to Tx overuns). This may not be
    the dmascc drivers fault per se though, as I recall trying both the pi and
    dmascc drivers earlier with a 2.0 kernel and they seemed equivalent.

                                                    ... Niall
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