SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[maxer]

What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
their act together
and write a new driver for 2.6.10?

Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.

RaXeT

Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:41:24AM -0700, maxer wrote:
> What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
> their act together
> and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> 
> Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.

Use the driver intree or better Stephen's rewrite.

Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[Petr Vandrovec]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:41:24AM -0700, maxer wrote:
> What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
> their act together
> and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> 
> Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.

What is problem with driver which is in the kernel?  It works flawlessly for
me, on ia32 and x86-64.  Only thing I had to do is patch below so hotplug
code knows that sk98lin driver can handle some PCI hardware...

Linux ppc 2.6.11-rc3-c2048-64 #1 SMP Fri Feb 4 00:48:12 CET 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)

						Petr Vandrovec


diff -urdN linux/drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c linux/drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c
--- linux/drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c	2005-01-29 17:31:14.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c	2005-01-30 00:11:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -5151,6 +5151,7 @@
 	{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_LINKSYS, 0x1064, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0 },
 	{ 0, }
 };
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (pci, skge_pci_tbl);
 
 static struct pci_driver skge_driver = {
 	.name		= "skge",

Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[Jeff Garzik]

maxer wrote:
> What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
> their act together
> and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> 
> Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.

I've been telling SysKonnect for _years_ that they need to split up 
their patches, but they still keep sending ever-larger jumbo driver 
update patches.

Stephen Hemminger split up their patch into a bunch of patches, and I 
applied several of those.

Apparently, Stephen also got sick of trying to patch and clean sk98lin, 
so he went and wrote his own "skge" driver.  It's available in my 
netdev-2.6 queue, and should be in the latest -mm.

	Jeff

Re: SysKonnect sk98lin Gigabit lan missing in action from 2.6.10 on

[Lawrence Walton]

Jeff Garzik [jgarzik@pobox.com] wrote:
> maxer wrote:
> >What is the status of sk98lin? Do we have to wait until Syskonnect gets 
> >their act together
> >and write a new driver for 2.6.10?
> >
> >Their latest is Oct 2004 and not at all compatible with 2.6.10 and beyond.
> 
> I've been telling SysKonnect for _years_ that they need to split up 
> their patches, but they still keep sending ever-larger jumbo driver 
> update patches.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger split up their patch into a bunch of patches, and I 
> applied several of those.
> 
> Apparently, Stephen also got sick of trying to patch and clean sk98lin, 
> so he went and wrote his own "skge" driver.  It's available in my 
> netdev-2.6 queue, and should be in the latest -mm.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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I have a SysKonnect card, and tried the skge driver (it's in the mm tree), with nominal testing 
I'd have to say it works well, if not better then the sk98lin driver.



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