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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 - 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
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