Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265590AbUFIGhX (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:37:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265594AbUFIGhX (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:37:23 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:61635 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265590AbUFIGhW (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:37:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:37:17 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Bill Davidsen cc: Linux Kernel Development Subject: sk98lin (was: Re: Linux 2.6.7-rc2) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1086187044.6179.8.camel@hostmaster.org> <200406041706.27716.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 27 On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote: > The solution may be an external table, program, or whatever, since the > situation changes as drivers are modified to support new models, > chipsets move to new vendors, etc. But it would be *really nice* to find > the 3c940 with 3COM drivers, instead of grepping driver source and > looking at spec sheets to find out that the driver is called something > like sk98lin, it's in an unobvious place and has a name unrelated to 3COM. Another problem with the sk98lin driver is that it hasn't yet been converted to the new driver model. Even when booting Knoppix, you have to manually modprobe sk98lin to use the 3c940. Took me a while to find out... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/