From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Chapman Subject: Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?) Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:07:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4690B76E.6070600@katalix.com> References: <46857C08.4030303@intel.com> <20070629150350.414553d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4685838D.9080108@garzik.org> <46859F3F.305@garzik.org> <4685C09B.7040908@intel.com> <20070630082520.GA20140@infradead.org> <468AD23A.4090904@intel.com> <468D8B32.9020305@garzik.org> <468EDAF9.3020606@intel.com> <20070707190431.GA26341@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <46900B83.1060902@intel.com> <20070707183244.19d21893@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , "Kok, Auke" , Jeff Garzik , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Christoph Hellwig , "Ronciak, John" , Andrew Grover , Francois Romieu , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Jason Lunz , Andy Gospodarek To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070707183244.19d21893@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> 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 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I think rather than having a meta-discussion, which always seems to degenerate > into finger pointing. Let's look at the code. The problem with popular drivers > (as I too well know) is that user's seem to find every wart. There are lots of > old drivers that never seem to get the same scrutiny, and if they did would > be tarred and feathered. Auke has already posted an early snapshot, archived here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118315951209350&w=3 Jeff and I have already commented on the code. -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/