netdev - Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20070109103309.0b872a53@freekitty>
Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:33:09 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -MM] e1000: rewrite hardware initialization code

On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:36:29 -0800
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> wrote:

> 
> Andrew, All,
> 
> This patch contains a major rewrite to the e1000 driver that groups and separates e1000 
> hardware by chipset family. It abstracts the hardware specific code into an API that 
> will allow us to continue to maintain the complex e1000 driver and add new hardware 
> support to it without touching code that affects older chipsets. 

Thats good. but:

>   drivers/net/e1000/Makefile            |   19
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h             |   95
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.c | 1330 +++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_80003es2lan.h |   89
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82540.c       |  586 ++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82541.c       | 1164 ++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82541.h       |   86
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82542.c       |  466 ++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82543.c       | 1397 +++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82543.h       |   45
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82571.c       | 1132 ++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_82571.h       |   42
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_api.c         | 1077 ++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_api.h         |  159 +
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_defines.h     | 1289 +++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c     |  470 +-
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c          | 9038 ---------------------------------
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h          | 3859 ++------------
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ich8lan.c     | 2353 +++++++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ich8lan.h     |  108
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_mac.c         | 1921 +++++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_mac.h         |   84
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c        | 1002 ++--
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_manage.c      |  387 +
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_manage.h      |   83
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_nvm.c         |  860 +++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_nvm.h         |   61
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_osdep.h       |   56
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c       |  115
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_phy.c         | 1932 +++++++
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_phy.h         |  157 +
>   drivers/net/e1000/e1000_regs.h        |  236 +
>   32 files changed, 18538 insertions(+), 13160 deletions(-)

Is lots of little files really progress?

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html