netdev - Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000

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Message-ID: <47FF8667.7090202@nortel.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:40:23 -0600
From:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	e1000-list <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-pci maillist <linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> well, your 2.6.26 plans, if i understand them correctly, is to move 
> currently working PCI IDs from e1000 to e1000e, like you attempted to d 
> it in v2.6.24, which Linus reverted - correct? I.e. e1000 simply wont 
> support eth0 on my T60 from 2.6.26 on? That is still an incredibly 
> stupid plan, and no amount of announcement on lkml will make it any less 
> stupid.

It seems like you're saying that once hardware is supported by a 
particular config option, it can never ever be split out to another 
config option, even if it makes both drivers cleaner.

A similar situation happened when the sk98lin driver was split into skge 
and sky2...I don't remember a big fuss back then.  Is it just that no 
major developers were using the hardware so they didn't notice?

Chris
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