linux-kernel - Re: [E1000-devel] [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI Express devices

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Date:	Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:49:06 -0700
From:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	e1000-list <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-pci maillist <linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI	Express
 devices

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:11 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> >From kernel 2.6.26 onward all *PCI Express* device IDs previously
>> supported by e1000 will be moving to the e1000e driver.  This includes
>> ich8 and ich9 onboard LAN, server 5000 platform onboard LAN (es2) and
>> 82571/2/3 chipset based adapters and variants.
>>
>> If you have not already enabled CONFIG_E1000E make sure that you do so.
>> You can already do this with 2.6.25.  From 2.6.26 on this change will be
>> required if you have such a device.
> 
> I've been bitten by one or two of these in the past.  Can we do
> something like this for a couple of releases?
> 
> Shouldn't this default the E1000E config option to the same thing that
> people have the E1000 set as?  It should catch the dumb people like me
> who's enter key gets held down during a 'make oldconfig'. :)

that discussion went into the bar and never came out again last time it was
proposed. I really do not want to have any more bandages around.

Also your patch will not help much since in 2.6.24 there already is a
CONFIG_E1000E option so we've passed the stage for many people where this hack
would work.

Auke

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