Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:49:06 -0700 | From | "Kok, Auke" <> | Subject | Re: [E1000-devel] [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI Express devices |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:11 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: >> >From kernel 2.6.26 onward all *PCI Express* device IDs previously >> supported by e1000 will be moving to the e1000e driver. This includes >> ich8 and ich9 onboard LAN, server 5000 platform onboard LAN (es2) and >> 82571/2/3 chipset based adapters and variants. >> >> If you have not already enabled CONFIG_E1000E make sure that you do so. >> You can already do this with 2.6.25. From 2.6.26 on this change will be >> required if you have such a device. > > I've been bitten by one or two of these in the past. Can we do > something like this for a couple of releases? > > Shouldn't this default the E1000E config option to the same thing that > people have the E1000 set as? It should catch the dumb people like me > who's enter key gets held down during a 'make oldconfig'. :)
that discussion went into the bar and never came out again last time it was proposed. I really do not want to have any more bandages around.
Also your patch will not help much since in 2.6.24 there already is a CONFIG_E1000E option so we've passed the stage for many people where this hack would work.
Auke
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