From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764284AbXGYNtU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:49:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751730AbXGYNtF (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:49:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37776 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751754AbXGYNtE (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:49:04 -0400 Message-ID: <46A754C7.9080004@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:48:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Andrew Morton , Auke Kok , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [-mm patch] one e1000 driver should be enough for everyone References: <20070725040304.111550f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070725133650.GB3572@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070725133650.GB3572@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > BTW: > Unless I'm misunderstanding anything, the new driver should support a > superset of what the old driver supported. > Therefore, it would be good if the final merge into Linus' tree will > do an > rm -r drivers/net/e1000 > mv drivers/net/e1000new drivers/net/e1000 Based on the most recent discussion, e1000new (or whatever it will be called) should support only the newer PCI-Express chips, while e1000 will retain support for the older chips. Over the long term this will allow e1000new to grow without affecting support for the older, stable chips. So, e1000 is not going away. Jeff