Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix (was: Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000) |
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Grant Grundler wrote: > > If e1000e is not getting compiled, my understanding was the original e1000 > driver will claim whatever devices it historically has.
Yes. And the patch to do so was done by yours truly, exactly because I hit this thing ;)
But it only works when the e1000e driver isn't enabled at all, which is why the "e1000e=m" case ends up being different, and Ingo then hit that one.
Linus
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