From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kok, Auke" Subject: Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:13:39 -0700 Message-ID: <4697F913.2040900@intel.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> <469110F6.2030902@linux.intel.com> <4691279C.8030603@garzik.org> <46914382.8090801@linux.intel.com> <469280F5.8000909@garzik.org> <46929EBB.3000809@intel.com> <4692B611.1050603@garzik.org> <4697F27F.6060107@intel.com> <4697F7EA.9050101@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Stephen Hemminger , Francois Romieu , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Grover , Andrew Morton , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Ronciak, John" , "David S. Miller" , Andy Gospodarek To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:56617 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757297AbXGMWNm (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:13:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4697F7EA.9050101@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Kok, Auke wrote: >> Sorry for not replying to this earlier (I was on vacation for 2 days). >> We had some internal discussions and all the noses appear to be facing >> in the proper direction. I'm very happy with this and it will be my >> highest priority to make this work. I will attempt to get a quick start >> on this and come with a start point driver as soon as I can. Thanks to >> everyones who commented! > > Sounds good to me. My only further comment would be to agree and > encourage posting of quick-start soon. Don't worry about much beyond > "it works" tests before posting the first public version. We'll > inevitably need a couple more minor revisions before merging, as with > all new drivers. > > We all seem to be going in the right direction, so the process should > not take months. I'll make it a priority to review each revision as > soon as possible. absolutely. I personally hope to have a draft ich9 version next week ready. Let's see if I make that - a lot of people would be happy to get it that soon ;) Auke