From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:51:02 -0700 Message-ID: <468562A6.8060901@intel.com> References: <1183138159.17243.16.camel@blaa> <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik To: Jason Lunz Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:25576 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754359AbXF2TvH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:51:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 disagree, we should not break the current e1000 driver in the kernel while there is a new driver coming up that introduces ich9 support without breaking (the old e1000) support for all other devices. This is why we want to drop a new version of the e1000 driver upstream instead, and put all newer devices in that driver. For distro's not following kernel.org releases we have the perfect solution: A fully tested 7.5.5 driver on sourceforge that was extensively tested against RHEL5 for instance, but also a lot of other older kernels. > What's the prognosis for the 7.5.5-series e1000 reorg going into > netdev-2.6? I sure hope to get it out before 2.6.23 merge window close... But anything can unfortunately happen. Auke