Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Andrew was concerned about this when the driver was in -mm.
>>> He asked for a patch that would set E1000E to same value as E1000
>>> and I supplied that. Auke acked it IIRC. Other people vetoed it. :(
>>
>> Yeah, I've been discussing with Jeff and the gang.
>>
>> I think we have agreed on a solution where the ID's show up in the old
>> driver if the new driver is not enabled at all.
>>
>> (And as a side note: it turns out that the problem I experienced
>> didn't come from the new e1000e driver after all, so I'll be removing
>> the EXPERIMENTAL flag again).
>>
>> So I'd suggest the final patch be something like this, but I'm sendign
>> it out just as an example of how we could solve this, not necessarily
>> as a final patch.
>>
>> Jeff, Auke, would something like this be acceptable? It makes it very
>> obvious in the driver table which entries are for the PCIE versions
>> that would be handled by the E1000E driver if it is enabled..
>>
>> Untested, but as mentioned, this is more of a "this looks maintainable
>> and like it should solve the issues" rather than anything I was
>> planning on committing now.
>>
>> Linus
>> ---
>> drivers/net/Kconfig | 5 ++-
>> drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 60
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>> 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> index 5a2d1dd..6c57540 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
>> @@ -1992,7 +1992,7 @@ config E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT
>>
>> config E1000E
>> tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support"
>> - depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
>> + depends on PCI
>> ---help---
>> This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit
>> ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters,
>> @@ -2009,6 +2009,9 @@ config E1000E
>> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
>> will be called e1000e.
>>
>> +config E1000E_ENABLED
>> + def_bool E1000E != n
>> +
>> config IP1000
>> tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support"
>> depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> index 3111af6..8c87940 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
>> @@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ static const char e1000_copyright[] = "Copyright
>> (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
>> * Macro expands to...
>> * {PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, device_id)}
>> */
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_E1000E_ENABLED
>> + #define PCIE(x) +#else
>> + #define PCIE(x) x,
>> +#endif
>
> Patch gets my ACK, if you like, though an improvement would be to have
> your Kconfig logic activate CONFIG_E1000_PCIEX. Then future janitors
> could come along and disable unused code in addition to PCI IDs.
Ack from my side as well, allthough I hope that this code will not live long as
I
would love to start taking out pci-e code out of e1000. If we merge this patch
then I suggest that we don't do that until for at least a whole cycle, since it
does not make much sense otherwise.
Auke
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