linux-kernel - Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix

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Message-ID: <20080411164542.GA4066@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:45:42 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	e1000-list <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-pci maillist <linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:22:56AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> You don't provide a solution, nor does anyone, and I don't see any solution to
> what you want but to completely cancel this driver split.
> 
> And I'm _not_ going to do that.

As a start we could do two driver keyed off a single Kconfig variable.
And then find a way to get users informed that they might need to
enabled the other one
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