Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 09 May 2008 14:43:59 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | | From | David Miller <> | |
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 08:05:47 -0700 (PDT)
> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> Yes. I saw 800 new lines to a driver I use, and I go "Ugh".
And if it enabled support for a device you have, for which you've been
patching the driver for some time, you'd go "Yippie!" :-)))
BTW, this reminds me, did we get that driver in for the device the
EEPC machines use? I have this strange feeling like that slipped
through the cracks.
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