From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266274AbUHDQxv (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:53:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267312AbUHDQxv (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:53:51 -0400 Received: from smtp-roam.Stanford.EDU ([171.64.10.152]:4749 "EHLO smtp-roam.Stanford.EDU") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266274AbUHDQxt (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:53:49 -0400 Message-ID: <411114E6.2060407@myrealbox.com> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:55:02 -0700 From: Andy Lutomirski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francois Romieu CC: lkml Subject: Re: Realtek 8169 NIC driver version References: <1677288031.20040803142517@yahoo.com.cn> <20040803093606.A4911@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20040803093606.A4911@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: > dlion : > [...] > >> 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