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

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Message-ID: <20070527005609.GB9566@datenfreihafen.org>
Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 02:56:09 +0200
From:	Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	aabdulla@...dia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: forcedeth: Reside in 100Mbit Kconfig but also supports 1000Mbit cards

Hello.

On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 17:29, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 01:07:50 +0200 Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.

I still like the partition by speed. It makes it a lot easier to find
the right driver in the bunch of available ones. A solution like a
Kconfig entry symlink for driver which needs to support cards in two
or more categories would be my favorite.

regards
Stefan Schmidt
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