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SubjectRe: [regression] e1000e broke e1000 (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI Express devices)

* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > so the pure presence of the e1000e module breaks the e1000 driver. That
> > is a regression and a bug that should be fixed.
>
> I think you've found the wrong problem ... it looks deliberate to me
> that enabling e1000e disables e1000 from claiming the PCI IDs (see the
> PCIE() macro right before the e1000_pci_tbl in
> drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c).
>
> The question is why e1000e isn't claiming the device ...

because i have e1000 built-in and dont load the e1000e module at all.
That worked before and doesnt work now.

the solution is rather straightforward: if E1000 is built-in then E1000E
should be built-in as well or disabled (i.e. it should not be possible
to build it as a module in that case) - because the PCI ID stealing
trick now connects the two drivers unconditionally. [ If e1000 is a
module then e1000e can be a module (or disabled) - this would be the
most common configuration. ]

Ingo


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