On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:11:50PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver. I wanted to just
> let the old driver wither and die from old age, but there are still bugs
> that are too painful to fix.
>
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6780
> The board crashes repeatedly after 2 weeks. It probably is something
> in the vendor MIB code. That code is a mess, and starting over was one
> of the motivations for creating the skge driver.
>
> So rather than add more bondo to the old beater to cover the rusty bits,
> throw it in the dustbin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
After a huge number of bug reports in Fedora 'went away' when we
switched our users to using skge instead, I wholeheartedly endorse this.
sk98lin is a disaster. The last time I looked the vendor out-of-tree
driver had a huge delta vs mainline, and backed out numerous fixes
made to it in the mainline kernel. It's a huge effort to get the 'good bits'
out of that patch, and letting it die is the only sensible solution IMO.
ACKed-by: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> +SK98LIN GIGABBIT ETHERNET DRIVER
typo :-)
Dave
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