On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 01:06:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

is it really sane these days to split out gigabit from the "regular" 
ethernets? gigabit ethernet is getting quite a bit more common than it 
used to be, and a lot of the gigabit devices are just "standard ethernet" 
as far as the user is concerned, and in fact they are often _used_ in just 
regular 10/100Mbps setups.

Or have a gige chip that's crippled to do only 10/100, like the sungem
on my ibook.