From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario Limonciello Subject: Re: How come realtek drivers are combined Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:24:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4868FA94.7060500@dell.com> References: <4864235A.40807@dell.com> <20080627191835.GA5064@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD80513F0691ECD35748E2ADD" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.207]:19731 "EHLO ausxippc101.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751308AbYF3PYI (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:24:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080627191835.GA5064@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD80513F0691ECD35748E2ADD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Francois: Francois Romieu wrote: > I made it this way. > =20 Ah. > Given that the choice of operating systems for laptops on Dell's online= > shop does not include my favorite OS, "everyone" seems a bit of an > overstatement to me (sorry, could not resist :o) ). > =20 You go and offer Redhat on business portables, and they want Ubuntu.=20 You offer Ubuntu on consumer portables and then they want $(INSERT DISTRO HERE) :) Offering this to every consumer as an option with every laptop though, that will take some time. For now, the consumers that want it can go to http://www.dell.com/linux > Compare two versions of the same driver from Realtek and you should > realize that you are addressing a false problem. > =20 This is sometimes a bit difficult to do since I didn't see historical versioning on their website. It was a hunch, however. Now I did see a fair deal of patches floating in from you, so I'll clone your netdev git tree and give this a run on some of the RTL8101's that are having trouble. Thanks for the thorough explanation, --=20 Mario Limonciello *Dell | Linux Engineering* mario_limonciello@dell.com --------------enigD80513F0691ECD35748E2ADD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIaPqU2CrZjkA73YsRAsT+AJ9usLHNU4sXfcZj/2neU/8dS2p+zgCfSYE7 J1klHL91dr9QIMVe7qxuj+U= =DUWJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD80513F0691ECD35748E2ADD--