From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:19:22 -0400 Message-ID: <47FBD34A.6080508@garzik.org> References: <47F69965.7030303@intel.com> <20080408083606.GA20863@elte.hu> <47FB9ABB.9080403@intel.com> <20080408183921.GA20803@elte.hu> <20080408193245.GG11962@parisc-linux.org> <20080408195123.GA28148@elte.hu> <47FBCE00.2020309@garzik.org> <20080408200652.GC28148@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kok, Auke" , Matthew Wilcox , e1000-list , NetDev , "Allan, Bruce W" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Jesse Brandeburg , "Ronciak, John" , Arjan van de Ven , Greg KH , linux-pci maillist , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080408200652.GC28148@elte.hu> 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 Ingo Molnar wrote: > i repeat, it took me more than an hour to figure out why there's no > networking on my laptop. Guess how much it takes for a plain user to > figure out the same problem. A plain user would have obtained a working distro kernel, putting this rare problem purely in the laps of people with highly unusual kernel configs... But as noted in the announcement, the fix is for this is to continue in the next step in the transition, then you only have one driver claiming those IDs, for any given config. No need for further Kconfig tweakage. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone