From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933438AbXGZP2P (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758432AbXGZP2C (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:02 -0400 Received: from fw01.cmbrmaks.akamai.com ([80.67.64.10]:55518 "EHLO smtp2.akamai.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757768AbXGZP2A (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:00 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 681 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:28:00 EDT Message-ID: <46A8BAD4.8020004@akamai.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:16:36 -0400 From: Kyle Rose User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From http://www.krose.org/~krose/computing.html: Since the sky2 driver continues to suck ass (which is a technical description for "it hangs all the time under load, at least on my hardware" :-) ), I've fixed the sk98lin driver to compile for linux-2.6.23-rc1. Those who continue to have problems with sky2 can still use 2.6.23-rc1, simply by doing the following: 1. Make sure you have the headers for your kernel properly installed and linked to /usr/src/linux-$KVER. 2. Download the sk98lin source from Marvell's site . 3. Untar the driver and run the install.sh according to the directions. It will fail. 4. Look in /tmp for a directory called Sk98something. Go to http://www.krose.org/~krose/projects/sk98lin/ and copy the Makefile and sky2.c into /tmp/Sk98something/all. 5. Change into /tmp/Sk98something/all and execute: sudo -H make -C /usr/src/linux-$KVER M=`pwd` modules sudo -H make -C /usr/src/linux-$KVER M=`pwd` modules_install 6. Blacklist sky2 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, and (maybe not necessary) manually load sk98lin in /etc/modules. There. You're done. Stable networking at last... er, again. Unfortunately, you lose the nicest differential feature of sky2---WOL---but that's a small price to pay for networking stability of a desktop machine. It's nice to be able to watch MythTV again without having to sudo bash -c 'ifdown eth0; rmmod sky2; modprobe sky2; ifup eth0' every few minutes. Personally, I'd like to see sk98lin remain in the kernel proper until sky2 goes at least 6 months without reported problems. The fact that I am not the only one still seeing issues is a clear indication that sky2 (even with the recent patches in 2.6.23-rc1) is not yet ready to replace sk98lin. I'm happy to help debug the remaining issues with sky2, Stephen; just let me know what information you need. Kyle