From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:16:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:16:50 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:6339 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:16:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:16:43 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Jeff Garzik Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , Lista Linux-Kernel , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel eths for 2.4 [was: Plan for e100-e1000 in mainline] Message-ID: <20020502001643.GE1698@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20020501010828.GA1753@werewolf.able.es> <3CCF796C.5090401@mandrakesoft.com> <20020501234644.GA1698@werewolf.able.es> <3CD0827B.1050902@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2002.05.02 Jeff Garzik wrote: >J.A. Magallon wrote: > >>On 2002.05.01 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> >>>I expect Intel's Q/A to green light their current driver. With a few >>>patches it should be ready for 2.4.x soon. >>> > >>I did it, taking drivers from 2.5.12, and at least it compiles. >>I have to try in the real box, but I don't think there were any problems, >>at least the same than 2.5.... >> >>Marcelo, is there any chance to get this in next -pre or in .19 ? >> > >When they are suitable for Marcelo, I'm going to send them to Marcelo. > >As I wrote in the quoted message, they need some more patches, and I'm >also interested in feedback from Intel Q/A (which is scheduled for >sometime this week). > Oops, sorry, I misunderstood something. >If you are interesting in maintaining 2.4.x patches for a short time, go >for it. But I would rather not have a almost-ready e100 go to Marcelo >and get released in 2.4.19 in incomplete form. It's out there, it's >public, let's leave at that for a little while. > OK, just forget all about -pre and .19. If somebody wants to try them, look at one other post about -jam9. It is the same story, I need them for some new boxen (e1000) and I prefer to have all in the same tree than apart, so took those from 2.5 instead of Intel's. -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.19-pre7-jam9 #2 SMP mié may 1 12:09:38 CEST 2002 i686