Subject: Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:21:03 -0400

Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Right now, E1000 means "support both PCI and PCI-E E1000" and E1000E means 
> "support PCI-E E1000".

It's even more confusing than that :)

E1000 means "support PCI and a few PCI-E"

E1000E means "all PCI-E"

There is a goodly number of PCI-E not supported by e1000 (some ich8, all 
ich9 and thereafter).

	Jeff