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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: New driver coming soon.
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That's typically left to the driver author's discression, so go at it.

* Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> [070530 17:53] 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?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jack
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