netdev - Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?)

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Message-ID: <20070709114649.00ffd7cc@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net>
Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:46:49 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Grover <andy.grover@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Subject: Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from
 7.5.5 ?)

Let me ask a different question. Why do we have some many user reported
problems with network drivers, not just the E1000's?

Is it lack of specifications? test infrastructure?
Or as I suspect lots of it has to with the myriad of chip revisions, including
cases where designs get reworked by OEM's.

If the problem were more understood, then the community would have more confidence
with new drivers and other changes.
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