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Geoffrey Leach wrote:
| I notice that the module that supports the Broadcom 5700 chip is | tg3.ko, rather than bcm/bcm5700.ko, which is what you get when you | build from the standard kernel sources (i.e., not rpm source). | | Anyone know the reason for this? | The reason is that the driver is a generic tg3 chip driver. Most Ethernet and other drivers use known chip-sets to drive the hardware. If you look carefully inside, you may see a chip on the board that lists TG3 on the chip.
The reason for not having it be bcm5700.ko is you would end up with a lot of modules with bcm5700.ko, bcm5702.ko, bcm5800.ko, etc. That may be identical in every way. With a module named tg3.ko you can use the same driver for many products that use the TG3 chip-set.
James Kosin
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