netdev - Re: forcedeth: Reside in 100Mbit Kconfig but also supports 1000Mbit cards

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Date:	Sat, 26 May 2007 17:29:29 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
Cc:	aabdulla@...dia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth: Reside in 100Mbit Kconfig but also supports 1000Mbit
 cards

On Sun, 27 May 2007 01:07:50 +0200 Stefan Schmidt wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I just needed some to tƣme to find out that the forcedeth driver I
> need for my dual-port 1000Mbit card on a asus M2N-SLI deluce mainboard
> resides in the 100Mbit category.
> 
> Is there a special reason for example 10/100Mbit only cards that work
> with forcedeth? If all cards are 1000Mbit I would just move the
> Kconfig entry over.
> 
> What would be the best way to deal with this if there are some
> 10/100Mbit cards which use the same driver as 1000Mbit cards?

There has been some mention of dropping the 10/100 and 1000
categories and just merging all of them together.
Makes sense to me.


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~Randy
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