Surprise found while reading the code

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Sat Jun 25 04:42:42 UTC 2016


Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com>:
> Were the two drivers different?

Not in any significant way I could see.  They parsed the same packet format.

I think the second one landed as a unit with the Hopf PCI driver and the
duplication was simply not noticed.  It wouldn't have been hard to miss;
the parse driver has 24 different submodes of which Hopf 6021 is just one.
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