From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:57:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:56:52 -0400 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]:60680 "EHLO mailout03.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:56:41 -0400 Date: 14 Sep 2001 10:07:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <88q7QEGHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Endian-ness bugs in yellowfin.c X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh7 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <20010914001540.B2951@boardwalk> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik) wrote on 14.09.01 in : > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Val Henson wrote: > > You misunderstood what I meant. This is the first case of one driver > > supporting two different cards, one 10/100 and one 10/100/1000. All > > the gigabit cards are 10/100/1000 as far as I know. I still think the > > driver should be listed in both the 100 Mbit and 1000 Mbit Ethernet > > menu sections, unless someone comes up with a better idea. > > Please do not add duplicate items... put drivers that can do gigabit > under gigabit. Eventually as we get more of them we can come up > with better Config.in categories. Besides being an ugly solution, > duplicating items has the potential to push edge cases in the various > Config.in parsers. Actually, I'd say that practically *all* the categories used for ethernet cards are confusing. I certainly often end up backtracking several times when configuring a new machine. Just throwing the lot out and using a flat list would be better than the current state. Bad category strategies: * Brand name. Drivers serve different brands. * Bus type. Drivers serve cards on different bus types. * Speed. Drivers serve cards capable of different speeds. I really don't know what's left. Unless, of course, mentioning one driver several places becomes possible. Then all these arguments become irrelevant. MfG Kai