Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:48:20 +0000 | From | Daniel Drake <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date |
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Alistair John Strachan wrote: > Thanks Matti, I wasn't even aware of this driver. Might I suggest the > "old" driver be marked as such in Linux 2.6.16. I guess I must've > skipped over it because it begins with "New", and does not contain > the word "Marvell", which is indicated exclusively by lspci.
I changed the help text of all 3 drivers (sk98lin/skge/sky2) to point out which ones are/aren't interchangable in 2.6.16. The situation is a little confusing.
The reason that the sk98lin diff is so huge is because SysKonnect effectively added support for a substantially different range of cards (Yukon-2) into the existing driver. This is far from the driver quality required for the kernel today, so Stephen Hemminger (skge author) wrote a new driver (sky2) for the Yukon-2 range.
The long term plan is to obsolete and remove sk98lin, but we aren't ready yet: skge issues pop up every month or two, and sky2 is young. Stephen's own words:
> I applaud the initiative, but this it is too premature to obsolete > the existing driver. There may be lots of chip versions and other > variables that make the existing driver a better choice.
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