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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:48:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [-mm patch] one e1000 driver should be enough for everyone Adrian Bunk wrote: > BTW: > Unless I'm misunderstanding anything, the new driver should support a > superset of what the old driver supported. > Therefore, it would be good if the final merge into Linus' tree will > do an > rm -r drivers/net/e1000 > mv drivers/net/e1000new drivers/net/e1000 Based on the most recent discussion, e1000new (or whatever it will be called) should support only the newer PCI-Express chips, while e1000 will retain support for the older chips. Over the long term this will allow e1000new to grow without affecting support for the older, stable chips. So, e1000 is not going away. 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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