From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?) Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:08:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46912808.4010408@garzik.org> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kok, Auke" , Francois Romieu , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Grover , Andrew Morton , Jason Lunz , Mark McLoughlin , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Ronciak, John" , "David S. Miller" , Andy Gospodarek , Arjan van de Ven To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41889 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753262AbXGHSIP (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:08:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070707183244.19d21893@freepuppy.rosehill.hemminger.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org 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. "it's not as scruffy as that driver in the corner" is no way to maintain a kernel. Jeff