From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:10:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602131110.34212.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060213110542.GZ3927@mea-ext.zmailer.org>
On Monday 13 February 2006 11:05, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:58:03AM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> > 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 My understanding is, that skge driver has superceded the sk98lin in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.
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.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-13 10:58 Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-13 11:05 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-02-13 11:10 ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2006-02-13 19:48 ` Daniel Drake
2006-02-13 23:15 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-13 11:06 ` Mws
2006-02-13 19:03 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-13 20:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-02-13 20:40 ` Lee Revell
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