Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 11/11] r8169: vlan support

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:23:56 -0400

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> :
> [...]
> 
>>does this series of patches imply that a librealtek kernel module is 
>>coming soon?  There's an awful lot of code duplication (due to hardware 
>>similarties) in r8169, 8139cp, and 8139too.
> 
> 
> I have not really considered 8139too so far as its hardware is a bit
> "different" but why not.

8139cp and 8139too both share the same phy code, and 8139cp and r8169 
both share the same RX/TX code.

> soon ? What have you done to the real Jeff ?

hehe :)

	Jeff