On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:52:52PM -0700, Williams, Mitch A wrote:

- We include e1000new in 2.6.23, along side e1000.  We expose ICH9
  device IDs in e1000new, and gate the rest of the IDs inside
  #ifndef CONFIG_E1000.

No.  Hardware support in one driver should never be affected by config
options in another drivers.

Also I really think there shouldn't be one single driver for all the
hardware as outlined by intel people in this thread.  I'd say add a new
e1000e driver for all the pci-e hardware and have a temporary config
option to disable those device already supported by the existing e1000
driver.

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