netdev - Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix

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Date:	Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:15:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@...ervon.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	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>,
	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: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to turn E1000 into a option that does nothing 
> > except select both E1000E and E1000_PCI, and have those two be the options 
> > that build drivers?
> 
> Yes, that sounds fine too. Although you need to add a
> 
> 	depends on PCI
> 
> to the E1000 thing (because the "select" would not honor the dependencies 
> that E1000E and E1000_PCI have).

Oh, right.

> However:
> 
> > Then, after a while, we drop the E1000 option entirely
> 
> I agree we could, but as I tried to explain, I fundamentally don't think 
> we _should_.
> 
> Why should people _ever_ be asked about whether they want "E1000 PCI 
> support" vs "E1000 PCI-E" support, when it's almost impossible to tell 
> which kind of card you have?
> 
> In other words, I suspect that anybody who selects E1000 support would 
> actually want the "support both" case, and simply not care. Unless they 
> were _really_ deeply aware of their hardware.

Eh, they'll both default to Y on PCs individually, so it's only people who 
are turning unused stuff off who will even look, and they'll probably ask 
/sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver or lsmod.

	-Daniel
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