netdev - Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?

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Message-ID: <468571C6.3090305@garzik.org>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:55:34 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jason Lunz <lunz@...lexsecurity.com>
CC:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>,
	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?

Jason Lunz wrote:
> What's the prognosis for the 7.5.5-series e1000 reorg going into
> netdev-2.6?

As I have posted previously, I am not keen on merging basically an e1000 
rewrite.  That basically throws away all Internet-wide testing so far. 
The rewrite was not done according to Linux kernel standards (read: 
progression of changes), so any problems will bisect into The Big 
Commit(tm) and go no further.  A rewrite also means the complete driver 
has to be reviewed from scratch, since such a large patch is basically 
impossible to review.  Finally, the rewrite doesn't do much to clean up 
the e1000 driver.

I warned Intel for months not to do things this way, but I guess my 
opinion counts for little :)

	Jeff

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