On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:40:23AM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:The difference is that : 1) either could be used for a long time 2) the old worked so bad that the word has spread among people in forums to try the new driver instead. I think that splitting drivers should be something accepted in the kernel's lifetime, but users must not be left confused. It's clearly easier to insert ourselves in their common process to wave hands indicating that their setup will soon not work anymore (eg: by having e1000 indicate what driver must be loaded for unsupported devices). Willy --
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