Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWBMToK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:44:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964817AbWBMToK (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:44:10 -0500 Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:45298 "EHLO mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWBMToJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:44:09 -0500 Message-ID: <43F0E284.2040805@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:48:20 +0000 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan CC: Matti Aarnio , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.16, sk98lin out of date References: <200602131058.03419.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060213110542.GZ3927@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <200602131110.34212.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200602131110.34212.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1399 Lines: 30 Alistair John Strachan wrote: > 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. I changed the help text of all 3 drivers (sk98lin/skge/sky2) to point out which ones are/aren't interchangable in 2.6.16. The situation is a little confusing. The reason that the sk98lin diff is so huge is because SysKonnect effectively added support for a substantially different range of cards (Yukon-2) into the existing driver. This is far from the driver quality required for the kernel today, so Stephen Hemminger (skge author) wrote a new driver (sky2) for the Yukon-2 range. The long term plan is to obsolete and remove sk98lin, but we aren't ready yet: skge issues pop up every month or two, and sky2 is young. Stephen's own words: > I applaud the initiative, but this it is too premature to obsolete > the existing driver. There may be lots of chip versions and other > variables that make the existing driver a better choice. Daniel - 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/