From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:10:34 +0000
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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 My understanding is, that  skge  driver has superceded the  sk98lin  in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.
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