Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000 (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] e1000 to e1000e migration of PCI Express devices)

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:39:21PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> so the pure presence of the e1000e module breaks the e1000 driver. That 
> is a regression and a bug that should be fixed.

I think you've found the wrong problem ... it looks deliberate to me that
enabling e1000e disables e1000 from claiming the PCI IDs (see the PCIE()
macro right before the e1000_pci_tbl in drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c).

The question is why e1000e isn't claiming the device ...

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