From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH][E1000E] some cleanups Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <46FFF7AD.7090309@garzik.org> References: <1191174077.6165.11.camel@localhost> <46FFE809.8020504@intel.com> <1191178881.6165.40.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kok, Auke" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:54333 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751262AbXI3TXa (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:23:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1191178881.6165.40.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org jamal wrote: > On Sun, 2007-30-09 at 11:16 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > >> no, all the hardware that is commented should work just fine. I tested this driver >> on 82571, 82573 and ich8/ich9 - extensively. > > Something else is wrong then. Can you just uncomment the 82571EB bits in > Dave's net-2.6.24 and just send a ping? If it works, let me know what > you did so i can test next time i get a chance. > >> the reason that we disable them is that we're going to migrate devices over in >> batches. At introduction we'll support ich9, afterwards we'll drop in the IDs of >> the other groups of silicon. > > Turn them on if you want people to start using that driver. Gotta wait a bit, otherwise we have confusion and a bit of breakage from two drivers with the same PCI IDs. Jeff