Subject: Re: [PATCH][E1000E] some cleanups

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:23:25 -0400

jamal wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-30-09 at 11:16 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> 
>> no, all the hardware that is commented should work just fine. I tested this driver
>> on 82571, 82573 and ich8/ich9 - extensively.
> 
> Something else is wrong then. Can you just uncomment the 82571EB bits in
> Dave's net-2.6.24 and just send a ping? If it works, let me know what
> you did so i can test next time i get a chance.
> 
>> the reason that we disable them is that we're going to migrate devices over in
>> batches. At introduction we'll support ich9, afterwards we'll drop in the IDs of
>> the other groups of silicon.
> 
> Turn them on if you want people to start using that driver.

Gotta wait a bit, otherwise we have confusion and a bit of breakage from 
two drivers with the same PCI IDs.

	Jeff