Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:05:35 -0400 (EDT) | From | Daniel Barkalow <> | Subject | Re: [patch] e1000=y && e1000e=m regression fix |
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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).
Okay, so with my change E1000 will incidentally give you ich9 support. But it doesn't fail to "support PCI and a few PCI-E", it just does some more that it has to give you for coverage of the traditional things.
-Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank*
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