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

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Message-ID: <20070630082643.GB20140@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:26:43 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Grover <andy.grover@...il.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	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 Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:57:46PM -0700, Andrew Grover wrote:
> When I was at Intel, I heard a lot of "the linux community won't let
> us split the driver". "Oh well, guess we gotta keep lugging around all
> the old crap." So it was a (perhaps misunderstood) desire to make you
> guys happy that led to e1000 turning into a monster.

Where exactly is that crap coming from?  We've always told people to
split drivers if things go to divergent and there's some interesting
examples where the vendors has a monster driver and mainline has two
nicely split ones (sk98lin vs skge and sky2 for example).

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