From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Schmidt Subject: Re: forcedeth: Reside in 100Mbit Kconfig but also supports 1000Mbit cards Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 02:56:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20070527005609.GB9566@datenfreihafen.org> References: <20070526230750.GA9566@datenfreihafen.org> <20070526172929.755b8d98.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: aabdulla@nvidia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap Return-path: Received: from sirius.lasnet.de ([62.75.240.18]:48119 "EHLO sirius.lasnet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751107AbXE0A4V (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 20:56:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070526172929.755b8d98.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello. On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 17:29, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007 01:07:50 +0200 Stefan Schmidt wrote: > > > > > What would be the best way to deal with this if there are some > > 10/100Mbit cards which use the same driver as 1000Mbit cards? > > There has been some mention of dropping the 10/100 and 1000 > categories and just merging all of them together. > Makes sense to me. I still like the partition by speed. It makes it a lot easier to find the right driver in the bunch of available ones. A solution like a Kconfig entry symlink for driver which needs to support cards in two or more categories would be my favorite. regards Stefan Schmidt