From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ? Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:44:52 -0700 Message-ID: <4689AA14.5020805@intel.com> References: <08FE5CC30C9A3F41BF819A502CF7BF6E019416BA@fmsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <46899408.4030407@hp.com> <20070703005537.GB3962@falooley.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , "Kok, Auke-jan H" , Rick Jones , Jeff Garzik , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jason Lunz Return-path: In-reply-to: <20070703005537.GB3962@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 Jason Lunz wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:10:48PM -0700, Rick Jones wrote: >> Rambling a bit, and recognizing that "e1000new" was probably just a >> strawman name, but I suspect that a _very_ different name for the new >> driver would be a good thing, rather than a varition on the e1000 theme. > > I rather liked the "e1000e" name suggested by Christoph Hellwig. That > may not be different enough for you, though. Anything but "e1000new"; > it won't be new forever. hehe, yes, true. And the e1000new was just a placeholder. e1000e seems much more attractive for me, especially if we end up splitting the driver at the pci/pci-e boundary (like ixgb and ixgbe are). Auke ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/