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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:02:13 -0700 From: "Andrew Grover" <andy.grover@...il.com> To: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, "Jason Lunz" <lunz@...lexsecurity.com>, "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@...hat.com>, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? On 6/29/07, Andrew Grover <andy.grover@...il.com> wrote: > I think making e1000new ICH9-and-newer isn't really the best place to > split it. The Windows e1000 driver got split on the PCI->PCIe > transition, something that clearly delineated what nics one driver > supported, and the other. There's no real technical reason for > splitting now other than "this was when e1000old collapsed under its > own weight". > > The PCIe adapters are also the first ones to support multiple queues > IIRC, maybe that would be an another actual technical reason to split > it there? I agree with Jeff BTW, the list of devices each one supports should have zero overlap. -- Andy - 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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