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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804101225570.3143@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>
cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, jeff@...zik.org, matthew@....cx,
auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
davem@...emloft.net, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
john.ronciak@...el.com, bruce.w.allan@...el.com, greg@...ah.com,
arjan@...ux.intel.com, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix (was: Re: [regression]
e1000e broke e1000)
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Grant Grundler wrote:
>
> If e1000e is not getting compiled, my understanding was the original e1000
> driver will claim whatever devices it historically has.
Yes. And the patch to do so was done by yours truly, exactly because I hit
this thing ;)
But it only works when the e1000e driver isn't enabled at all, which is
why the "e1000e=m" case ends up being different, and Ingo then hit that
one.
Linus
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