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From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > Right now, E1000 means "support both PCI and PCI-E E1000" and E1000E means
> > "support PCI-E E1000".
> 
> It's even more confusing than that :)
> 
> E1000 means "support PCI and a few PCI-E"
> 
> E1000E means "all PCI-E"
> 
> There is a goodly number of PCI-E not supported by e1000 (some ich8, all ich9
> and thereafter).

Okay, so with my change E1000 will incidentally give you ich9 support. But 
it doesn't fail to "support PCI and a few PCI-E", it just does some more 
that it has to give you for coverage of the traditional things.

	-Daniel
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