From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:39:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20070629213933.GA7506@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> References: <1183138159.17243.16.camel@blaa> <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mark McLoughlin , Auke Kok , Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jason Lunz Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:50:07AM -0700, Jason Lunz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > I understand there is some delay in getting e1000-7.5.5 into the > > upstream kernel given the major re-working of the chipset specific > > parts. > > > > I wonder would it be feasible in the meantime to backport the ich9 > > support and push it upstream? > > seconded - this driver reorg has been holding back support for the > newest e1000 hardware since at least 2.6.20, and I haven't seen any > indication that the 7.5.5 e1000 driver will even be added to 2.6.23. > I'll ACK this as well. I'd like to see ich9 support upstream as soon as possible and I'd rather see it with the old driver than not at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/