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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:40:23 -0600
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar wrote:

> well, your 2.6.26 plans, if i understand them correctly, is to move 
> currently working PCI IDs from e1000 to e1000e, like you attempted to d 
> it in v2.6.24, which Linus reverted - correct? I.e. e1000 simply wont 
> support eth0 on my T60 from 2.6.26 on? That is still an incredibly 
> stupid plan, and no amount of announcement on lkml will make it any less 
> stupid.

It seems like you're saying that once hardware is supported by a 
particular config option, it can never ever be split out to another 
config option, even if it makes both drivers cleaner.

A similar situation happened when the sk98lin driver was split into skge 
and sky2...I don't remember a big fuss back then.  Is it just that no 
major developers were using the hardware so they didn't notice?

Chris