one possibility would be to merge e1000new with support only for chips not supported by e1000, and semi-freeze e1000 (fixes only, new device support goes into e1000new). Then if there are some devices that are more naturally supported by e1000new, we could later on merge patches to move support for those devices from e1000 to e1000new. Presumably this would simplify e1000, since it would have to support a smaller set of older devices. e1000new would stay relatively clean too since it wouldn't have to handle anything too old.
And at every stage of the process, any given NIC would have only one driver in the tree. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
