Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4

Kasper Sandberg
2004-09-07T14:25:01Z

if you feel like it, you are welcome to make the patch, atleast for me,
then ill test it :D

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 13:59 +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
>
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm4/
> >
> > - Added Dave Howells' mysterious CacheFS.
> > - Various new fixes, cleanups and bugs, as usual.
>
> the sk98lin driver in the kernel is getting to be rather old, and
> doesn't support things like the Marvel 88E8053 found on Asus P5AD2
> Deluxe motherboards. the installation tool from SysKonnect comes
> with a patch generator, which makes everything nice and tidy, but
> the patch is huge against any current kernel. against 2.6.9-rc1-mm4
> we're looking at just over a megabyte.
>
> I have however tested the driver against a few chipsets with 2.6.7
> and 2.6.9-rc1-mm4, and it seems to work for me[tm]. I can happily
> produce the patch for either of these kernels if need be.
>
> oh, and the version of the driver I've tested, version 7.07, finally
> works with tools like pcimodules.
>
>