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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:35:37 +0200
From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: 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)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> No it wouldn't, not when the driver we used forever suddenly stopped
> supporting them.
In this case e1000 stops supporting them only if you enable e1000e
too. No e1000e, e1000 still does those IDs. For now, if I understand
it correctly. And it seems to print a warning.
So it doesn't work if you make e1000e a module and don't load it.
> And no, I'm not talking about some theoretical "this could happen" thing.
> I hit exactly that with commit
> 040babf9d84e7010c457e9ce69e9eb1c27927c9e
Right. Now it's a different situation, though.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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