From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] sky2: disable support for 88E8056
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:47:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411214859.649647641@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070411214757.194710334@linux-foundation.org
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This device is having all sorts of problems that lead to data corruption
and system instability. It gets receive status and data out of order,
it generates descriptor and TSO errors, etc.
Until the problems are resolved, it should not be used by anyone
who cares about there system.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
--- sky2-2.6.21.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-04-11 14:06:38.000000000 -0700
+++ sky2-2.6.21/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-04-11 14:07:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ static const struct pci_device_id sky2_i
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4361) }, /* 88E8050 */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4362) }, /* 88E8053 */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4363) }, /* 88E8055 */
+#ifdef broken
+ /* This device causes data corruption problems that are not resolved */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4364) }, /* 88E8056 */
+#endif
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4366) }, /* 88EC036 */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4367) }, /* 88EC032 */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4368) }, /* 88EC034 */
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 22:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 21:47 [PATCH 0/6] More sky2 patches for 2.6.21 Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-11 21:47 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-04-19 19:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] sky2: disable support for 88E8056 Jeff Garzik
2007-04-11 21:47 ` [PATCH 2/6] sky2: handle descriptor errors Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-11 21:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] sky2: disable ASF on all chip types Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-11 21:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] sky2: EC-U performance and jumbo support Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-11 21:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] sky2: no jumbo on Yukon FE Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-11 21:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] sky2: version 1.14 Stephen Hemminger
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