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 20:04:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:04:03 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:8710 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 May 2002 20:04:02 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD0827B.1050902@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 20:04:11 -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 , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel eths for 2.4 [was: Plan for e100-e1000 in mainline] In-Reply-To: <20020501010828.GA1753@werewolf.able.es> <3CCF796C.5090401@mandrakesoft.com> <20020501234644.GA1698@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: >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). 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. Jeff