Subject: Re: Splitting e1000 (Was: Re: e1000: backport ich9 support from 7.5.5 ?)

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:08:08 -0400

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I think rather than having a meta-discussion, which always seems to degenerate
> into finger pointing. Let's look at the code. The problem with popular drivers
> (as I too well know) is that user's seem to find every wart.  There are lots of
> old drivers that never seem to get the same scrutiny, and if they did would
> be tarred and feathered.

"it's not as scruffy as that driver in the corner" is no way to maintain 
a kernel.

	Jeff