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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> 
>>> We've got three thousand Kconfig options - it is clearly not 
>>> realistic for users to keep such details in mind to avoid pitfalls.
>> Agreed -- hence the multiple announcements, including in this thread, 
>> to put said details into mind.
> 
> which part of "it took a kernel developer more than an hour to figure 
> out why his laptop had a dead network interface" did you not understand? 
> Whatever you did, it was not apparent to me. I dont follow every tiny 
> detail of the e1000 driver family, nor do 99%+ [*] of our users.

You do follow LKML, where multiple announcements have and are being posted.

	Jeff