Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754881AbYBNC5O (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:57:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753618AbYBNC45 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:56:57 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49855 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753798AbYBNC44 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:56:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:55:02 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Harvey Harrison , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Jiri Slaby , Pavel Machek , Christoph Hellwig , Dominik Brodowski , Andi Kleen , Adrian Bunk , Arjan van de Ven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nick Piggin , LKML , Randy Dunlap , Len Brown Subject: Re: Feature Removals for 2.6.25 Message-ID: <20080213185502.0005dd4d@extreme> In-Reply-To: <47B3AC24.5050605@tmr.com> References: <1201829922.23523.68.camel@brick> <47B3AC24.5050605@tmr.com> Organization: Linux Foundation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.12.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1626 Lines: 35 > > > Ping? > > What: sk98lin network driver > > When: Feburary 2008 > > Why: In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver > > replaced by the skge driver. > > Who: Stephen Hemminger > > > > --------------------------- > > We have been over this several times, and I thought someone had taken > over the driver and was providing patches to put it in. Both skge and > sky2 have been proposed as the replacement, people have reported > problems with each. Suggest leaving this alone until the sk98lin > actually needs work, then take it out. Problems in my problem system > have been intermittent, take 4-40 hours to show and generate no errors, > other than the driver thinks it's sending packets and the sniffer doesn't. The vendor sk98lin driver will continue it's happy life out of tree. The version in 2.6.25 is ancient and unmaintained and only supports older hardware. There are no outstanding issues with skge driver (sky2 is prone to hardware problems, but then so is vendor driver). Unfortunately, removing sk98lin seems to be the only way to make die hard users report problems. The last time we removed it, some user's of old Genesis boards showed with issues, but those are now fixed. Jeff has scheduled sk98lin for removal in 2.6.26. (and it will probably be gone from -mm before that). -- 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/