[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 10/10 Rev4] [E1000] Implement batching

Krishna Kumar2 krkumar2 at in.ibm.com
Wed Aug 22 19:44:32 PDT 2007


Hi Auke,

"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com> wrote on 08/22/2007 08:09:31 PM:

> Krishna,
>
> while I appreciate the patch I would have preferred a patch to e1000e.
Not only
> does the e1000e driver remove a lot of the workarounds for old silicon,
it is
> also a good way for us to move the current e1000 driver into a bit more
stable
> maintenance mode.
>
> Do you think you can write this patch for e1000e instead? code-wise a lot
of
> things are still the same, so your patch should be relatively easy to
generate.
>
> e1000e currently lives in a branch from jeff garzik's netdev-2.6 tree

Definitely, I will pick it up and generate a patch.

Thanks,

- KK




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