On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

	I understand there is some delay in getting e1000-7.5.5 into the
upstream kernel given the major re-working of the chipset specific
parts.

	I wonder would it be feasible in the meantime to backport the ich9
support and push it upstream?

seconded - this driver reorg has been holding back support for the
newest e1000 hardware since at least 2.6.20, and I haven't seen any
indication that the 7.5.5 e1000 driver will even be added to 2.6.23.

What's the prognosis for the 7.5.5-series e1000 reorg going into
netdev-2.6?

Jason