Re: [regression] e1000e broke e1000

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 08 2008 - 16:08:33 EST



* Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Then disable E1000E in your kernel config, and the PCIE() macro will
> do the right thing...

it is an obvious regression that could and should be solved in the
Kconfig space: do not allow E1000=y && E1000E=m.

i repeat, it took me more than an hour to figure out why there's no
networking on my laptop. Guess how much it takes for a plain user to
figure out the same problem.

Ingo
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