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 01:13:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 01:13:01 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56588 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 01:13:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3CCF796C.5090401@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 01:13:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/00200203 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" CC: Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: Plan for e100-e1000 in mainline In-Reply-To: <20020501010828.GA1753@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J.A. Magallon wrote: >Hi. > >Well, subject says it all. Which is the status/plans for inclussion >of those drivers in mainline kernel ? AFAIR, e1000 had been licensed, >but e100 was not clear yet. > e100 has been in 2.5.x for quite a long time. All license issues have similarly been resolved a long time ago. 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. You can easily copy drivers/net/e100[0] into a 2.4.x kernel, it likely compiles without modification. Jeff