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SubjectRe: [regression] e1000e broke e1000
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


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