From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:42:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20060815184231.GV2900@mathom.us> References: <20060815131852.GP2900@mathom.us> <20060815110340.2c60f842@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.48]:13450 "EHLO vms048pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965096AbWHOSnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:43:07 -0400 Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([72.66.19.42]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J410018JYN2KNI1@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:42:39 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: <20060815110340.2c60f842@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> To: Stephen Hemminger Content-disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:03:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > * driver parameters > skge/sky2 don't have many and most are standard across other drivers > This driver intentionally does not support configuration via module > parameters because it is better done through ethtool Fair enough. It might be nice to mention that specifically somewhere, for people transitioning from sk98lin (which required a special parameter in order to use both ports). >The driver has always supported both ports as separate devices. If you want to >use bonding or fail over that is available in generic kernel. ok, I'll test that in the next few days. >> I tried testing the skge driver on one system and got this in dmesg: >> >> skge 0000:03:0c.0: unsupported phy type 0x0 >> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:0c.0 disabled >> skge: probe of 0000:03:0c.0 failed with error -95 >> > >What hardware was that? Please send me an lspci -vv output. 0000:03:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Syskonnect (Schneider & Koch) SK-98xx Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (rev 12) Subsystem: Syskonnect (Schneider & Koch) SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-