Jason Lunz wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:I understand there is some delay in getting e1000-7.5.5 into the upstream kernel given the major re-working of the chipset specific parts.I wonder would it be feasible in the meantime to backport the ich9 support and push it upstream?seconded - this driver reorg has been holding back support for the newest e1000 hardware since at least 2.6.20, and I haven't seen any indication that the 7.5.5 e1000 driver will even be added to 2.6.23.
I disagree, we should not break the current e1000 driver in the kernel while there is a new driver coming up that introduces ich9 support without breaking (the old e1000) support for all other devices. This is why we want to drop a new version of the e1000 driver upstream instead, and put all newer devices in that driver.
For distro's not following kernel.org releases we have the perfect solution: A fully tested 7.5.5 driver on sourceforge that was extensively tested against RHEL5 for instance, but also a lot of other older kernels.
What's the prognosis for the 7.5.5-series e1000 reorg going into netdev-2.6?
I sure hope to get it out before 2.6.23 merge window close... But anything can unfortunately happen.
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