From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:26:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20070630082643.GB20140@infradead.org> References: <1183138159.17243.16.camel@blaa> <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> <468571C6.3090305@garzik.org> <46857C08.4030303@intel.com> <20070629150350.414553d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4685838D.9080108@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , "Kok, Auke" , Jason Lunz , Mark McLoughlin , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Grover Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48801 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753239AbXF3I0t (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:26:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:57:46PM -0700, Andrew Grover wrote: > When I was at Intel, I heard a lot of "the linux community won't let > us split the driver". "Oh well, guess we gotta keep lugging around all > the old crap." So it was a (perhaps misunderstood) desire to make you > guys happy that led to e1000 turning into a monster. Where exactly is that crap coming from? We've always told people to split drivers if things go to divergent and there's some interesting examples where the vendors has a monster driver and mainline has two nicely split ones (sk98lin vs skge and sky2 for example).