On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:57:46PM -0700, Andrew Grover wrote:
> When I was at Intel, I heard a lot of "the linux community won't let
> us split the driver". "Oh well, guess we gotta keep lugging around all
> the old crap." So it was a (perhaps misunderstood) desire to make you
> guys happy that led to e1000 turning into a monster.

Where exactly is that crap coming from?  We've always told people to
split drivers if things go to divergent and there's some interesting
examples where the vendors has a monster driver and mainline has two
nicely split ones (sk98lin vs skge and sky2 for example).

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