Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 09 May 2008 10:32:14 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | |
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It's one thing taking a totally new driver (that couldn't have worked
> before and cannot be a regression) or adding new PCI ID's. It's a totally
> different thing to take 800 lines of code to an old driver that people
> depend on. These things need to happen during the merge window, and just
> because they are drivers doesn't mean that they can just do anythign they
> want.
The e1000e change is just a bunch of code additions for a new phy type,
not a bunch of /changes/ really. Is that the change you're concerned with?
Jeff
|  |