Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:15:08 +0000 |
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On Monday 13 February 2006 19:48, Daniel Drake wrote: > 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.
Thanks, this would have prevented my mistake.
> 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.
Well, Stephen's driver works great for me and sk98lin frankly didn't.
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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