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 15:16:10 -0700 Message-ID: <468584AA.2030602@intel.com> References: <1183138159.17243.16.camel@blaa> <20070629175006.GB3917@falooley.org> <468571C6.3090305@garzik.org> <46857C08.4030303@intel.com> <20070629150350.414553d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kok, Auke" , Jeff Garzik , Jason Lunz , Mark McLoughlin , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:37517 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753591AbXF2WQP (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:16:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070629150350.414553d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:39:20 -0700 > "Kok, Auke" wrote: > >> That's why we want to introduce a second e1000 driver (named differently, pick >> any name) that contains the new code base, side-by-side into the kernel with the >> current e1000. > > Sounds like a reasonable approach to me (it has plenty of precedent). But > I forget what all the other issues were, so ignore me. > >> This new e1000 codebase goes miles and miles beyond what I posted in april/march >> and what is in -mm. > > There are no e1000 changes in -mm (from you), I don't believe. git-e1000 > has been in permadrop mode since 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 due to a huge number of git > rejects/conflicts. > > Is git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6#mm the correct URL? no, not yet, please remove that tree. I'll post a new one when ready. Auke