Re: New driver coming soon.
- From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:33:42 -0700
He stated previously that they are not compatible.
On 5/31/07, Christian Brueffer <brueffer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:51:35PM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:_______________________________________________
> I wanted to let everyone know that I will soon have a
> new 10G driver to add to the tree. It is a PCI Express
> MSI/X adapter, I would like to call this driver 'ix' rather
> than follow Linux who are calling it 'ixgbe'. It is not
> backwardly compatible with ixgb. Any objections
> to the name? It would be nice to get this in before
> 7 becomes a RELEASE, what time frame do I
> have for that?
>
Hi Jack,
will the new driver support the hardware that ixgb(4) currently supports,
e.g. will it replace ixgb(4)? If yes, I'd like the name ixgb to stay.
- Christian
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