From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8169 NIC driver version
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:55:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <411114E6.2060407@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040803093606.A4911@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Francois Romieu wrote:
> dlion <dlion2005@yahoo.com.cn> :
> [...]
>
>> I have read some driver codes in the Linux kernel. I noticed
>>that the RTL-8169 driver(r8169.c) is an older version (v1.2).
>>There is a newer drivers on Realtek's website. It's version
>>number is v1.6 , and it is really much better than v1.2. Why
>>not merge it into official kernel realease?
>
>
> It has already been merged in 2.4.x and 2.6.x. That's old history,
> really.
This one bit me awhile back, too. Could we just remove that version
number? (Especially with the latest round of changes, the in-kernel
driver bears little resemblance to Realtek's.)
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-04 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-03 6:25 Realtek 8169 NIC driver version dlion
2004-08-03 7:36 ` Francois Romieu
2004-08-04 16:55 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2004-08-04 17:16 ` Francois Romieu
2004-08-03 14:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
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