Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix (was: Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000) | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:35:37 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> No it wouldn't, not when the driver we used forever suddenly stopped > supporting them.
In this case e1000 stops supporting them only if you enable e1000e too. No e1000e, e1000 still does those IDs. For now, if I understand it correctly. And it seems to print a warning.
So it doesn't work if you make e1000e a module and don't load it.
> And no, I'm not talking about some theoretical "this could happen" thing. > I hit exactly that with commit > 040babf9d84e7010c457e9ce69e9eb1c27927c9e
Right. Now it's a different situation, though. -- Krzysztof Halasa
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