On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:04:49PM -0700, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:06:17PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > > > > > > The Intel(R) PRO/1000 82572EI card is fully supported by 7.0.33-k2 and > > > onward. Add the device ID so this card works with 2.6.17.y onward. This > > > device ID was accidentally omitted. > > > > Sorry, but we don't add new device support in the -stable kernel tree, > > it's "bugfixes only." > > In this case I believe it to be a bug in our code, instead of adding new > support. The driver code supports other device IDs for this same chip.
Heh, that would be a slipery slope, as everyone who adds device ids feels that it is a "bug" that the driver does not support their device. If we were to allow this, there would be a _lot_ more -stable patches, which I don't think is a good thing to have. > The kernel driver advertises through our probe table and in our readme > that we support this device (code is in e1000_main.c) but we don't load on > it correctly due to an error when we submitted the patches (e1000_hw.c/h). > > Patch is very simple and low risk, but it is your call. Sorry, but for now, no. Users should be able to use the sysfs bind and new_id interface to add new device support for your driver, if it's written properly :) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
