Re: [PATCH 2.6.8.1-mm4 11/11] r8169: vlan support

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> :
> [...]
>
> > does this series of patches imply that a librealtek kernel module is 
> > coming soon?  There's an awful lot of code duplication (due to hardware 
> > similarties) in r8169, 8139cp, and 8139too.
>
>
> I have not really considered 8139too so far as its hardware is a bit
> "different" but why not.

8139cp and 8139too both share the same phy code, and 8139cp and r8169 
both share the same RX/TX code.


> soon ? What have you done to the real Jeff ?

hehe :)

        Jeff