From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: "Kok, Auke-jan H" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
stable@kernel.org, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
"Kok, Auke" <auke@foo-projects.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] e1000: add forgotten PCI ID for supported device
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:24:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060729002440.GA3284@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0607281659480.2660@jbrandeb-desk.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:04:49PM -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:06:17PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote:
> > >
> > > The Intel(R) PRO/1000 82572EI card is fully supported by 7.0.33-k2 and
> > > onward. Add the device ID so this card works with 2.6.17.y onward. This
> > > device ID was accidentally omitted.
> >
> > Sorry, but we don't add new device support in the -stable kernel tree,
> > it's "bugfixes only."
>
> In this case I believe it to be a bug in our code, instead of adding new
> support. The driver code supports other device IDs for this same chip.
Heh, that would be a slipery slope, as everyone who adds device ids
feels that it is a "bug" that the driver does not support their device.
If we were to allow this, there would be a _lot_ more -stable patches,
which I don't think is a good thing to have.
> The kernel driver advertises through our probe table and in our readme
> that we support this device (code is in e1000_main.c) but we don't load on
> it correctly due to an error when we submitted the patches (e1000_hw.c/h).
>
> Patch is very simple and low risk, but it is your call.
Sorry, but for now, no. Users should be able to use the sysfs bind and
new_id interface to add new device support for your driver, if it's
written properly :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-29 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 22:06 [PATCH] e1000: add forgotten PCI ID for supported device Auke Kok
2006-07-28 23:18 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2006-07-29 0:04 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2006-07-29 0:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-07-29 3:19 ` John W. Linville
2006-08-03 7:17 ` Greg KH
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