Subject: Re: Mostly revert "e1000/e1000e: Move PCI-Express device IDs over to e1000e"

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:05:59 -0500

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Andrew was concerned about this when the driver was in -mm.
>> He asked for a patch that would set E1000E to same value as E1000
>> and I supplied that.  Auke acked it IIRC.  Other people vetoed it.  :(
> 
> Yeah, I've been discussing with Jeff and the gang.
> 
> I think we have agreed on a solution where the ID's show up in the old 
> driver if the new driver is not enabled at all.
> 
> (And as a side note: it turns out that the problem I experienced didn't 
> come from the new e1000e driver after all, so I'll be removing the 
> EXPERIMENTAL flag again).
> 
> So I'd suggest the final patch be something like this, but I'm sendign it 
> out just as an example of how we could solve this, not necessarily as a 
> final patch.
> 
> Jeff, Auke, would something like this be acceptable? It makes it very 
> obvious in the driver table which entries are for the PCIE versions that 
> would be handled by the E1000E driver if it is enabled..
> 
> Untested, but as mentioned, this is more of a "this looks maintainable and 
> like it should solve the issues" rather than anything I was planning on 
> committing now.
> 
> 		Linus
> ---
>  drivers/net/Kconfig            |    5 ++-
>  drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   60 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> index 5a2d1dd..6c57540 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
> @@ -1992,7 +1992,7 @@ config E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT
>  
>  config E1000E
>  	tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support"
> -	depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	depends on PCI
>  	---help---
>  	  This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit
>  	  ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters,
> @@ -2009,6 +2009,9 @@ config E1000E
>  	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
>  	  will be called e1000e.
>  
> +config E1000E_ENABLED
> +	def_bool E1000E != n
> +
>  config IP1000
>  	tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support"
>  	depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
> diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> index 3111af6..8c87940 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
> @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ static const char e1000_copyright[] = "Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
>   * Macro expands to...
>   *   {PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, device_id)}
>   */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_E1000E_ENABLED
> +  #define PCIE(x) 
> +#else
> +  #define PCIE(x) x,
> +#endif

Patch gets my ACK, if you like, though an improvement would be to have 
your Kconfig logic activate CONFIG_E1000_PCIEX.  Then future janitors 
could come along and disable unused code in addition to PCI IDs.

	Jeff