Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date

[Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:58:03AM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> From:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
> To:	netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date
> Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:58:03 +0000
> Cc:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As I'm sure the drivers/net maintainers are well aware, SysKonnect constantly 
> update their sk98lin/sky2 driver without bothering to sync their changes with 
> the official linux kernel.

My understanding is, that  skge  driver has superceded the  sk98lin  in
most uses.

There could, of course, be a change to insert vendor driver _as_is_ into
baseline kernel with its own name.


> I quickly downloaded driver version 8.31 from http://www.skd.de/ today and 
> used the install script to generate a diff against 2.6.16-rc3. Even after 
> fixing up some DOS EOLs in the package, the diff was still well over 1.5MBs. 
> This is an enormous number of changes.
> 
> The reason I'm posting is that my DFI LanParty-UT SLI-D works with this 
> version of the driver, but not the version 2.6.16-rc3.
> 
> [alistair] 10:55 [~] dmesg | grep sk98lin
> sk98lin: Could not read VPD data.
> sk98lin: probe of 0000:01:0a.0 failed with error -5
> 
> I wonder if it's worth just identifying the "quick fix" (I've seen
> workarounds for corrupt VPDs like mine) or whether a general merge
> up would be beneficial..

See if  'skge'  driver would work instead of  'sk98lin'  ?

> If nobody's maintaining this driver I wouldn't mind helping out.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Alistair.

  /Matti Aarnio