Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Belhomme <{gmane}+no/> | Subject | why sk98lin driver is not up-to date ? | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:09:54 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hi,
I was I trouble with my 3c940 gigabit NIC on my Debian Sid this latest kernel 2.6.15 self-compiled... I wondered why ethtool was not able to get/set WoL status while the readme available on the sysKonnect website says sk98lin supports WoL : http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/readme/linux/sk98lin. html
So I looked at Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt on my 2.6.15 tree :
sk98lin.txt created 13-Feb-2004 Readme File for sk98lin v6.23
And on drivers/net/sk98lin/h/skdrv1st.h :
* Name: skdrv1st.h * Project: GEnesis, PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter * Version: $Revision: 1.4 $ * Date: $Date: 2003/11/12 14:28:14 $ * Purpose: First header file for driver and all other modules
But on the syskonnect website, I downloaded a really more recent revision (Version: 8.28.1.3, Date: 29:09:2005) at this url : http://www.skd.de/e_en/support/driver_searchresults.html?navid=13 &action=search&configurationId=e_en.downloads_support&term=typ.treiber+Li nux+SK-9521&searchTerm=&produkt=SK-9521&typ=typ.treiber&system=Linux
A look on drivers/net/sk98lin/h/skdrv1st.h from this archive :
* Name: skdrv1st.h * Project: GEnesis, PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter * Version: $Revision: 1.5.2.6 $ * Date: $Date: 2005/08/09 07:14:29 $ * Purpose: First header file for driver and all other modules
So this archive is more recent than sources included in stock kernel, but older than 2.6.14 kernel, so I wonder why this revision of sk98lin is not included in kernel ? I firstly thinked about some GNU license violation, but header files still refer to GNU license... So what's the matter with this driver ?
Thanks for your attention,
-- Rico
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