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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:13:43 -0400
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Cc: "Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:52:52PM -0700, Williams, Mitch A wrote:
>> - We include e1000new in 2.6.23, along side e1000.  We expose ICH9
>>   device IDs in e1000new, and gate the rest of the IDs inside
>>   #ifndef CONFIG_E1000.
> 
> No.  Hardware support in one driver should never be affected by config
> options in another drivers.

Agreed.


> Also I really think there shouldn't be one single driver for all the
> hardware as outlined by intel people in this thread.

Agreed.

(as I've been saying)

	Jeff