[PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-07-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver. I wanted to just let the old driver wither and die from old age, but there are still bugs that are too painful to fix. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6780 The board crashes repeatedly after 2 weeks. It probably is something i

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-07-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:11:50PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver. I wanted to just > let the old driver wither and die from old age, but there are still bugs > that are too painful to fix. > > See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-07-22 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:17:03PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 02:11:50PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver. I wanted to just > > let the old driver wither and die from old age, but there are still bugs > > that are

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
ACK, however [EMAIL PROTECTED] netdev-2.6]$ git-applymbox /g/tmp/mbox ~/info/signoff.txt 1 patch(es) to process. Applying 'mark sk98lin driver for removal' error: patch failed: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt:258 error: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt: patch does not apply

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
Hopefully the skge driver will be updated to support everything the sk98lin driver does before it is removed. Among other things, I don't see any documentation for the skge driver similar to that for the sk98lin driver. Is there some driver option to use both ports of a dual port card, as there

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-08-15 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:18:54 -0400 Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hopefully the skge driver will be updated to support everything the > sk98lin driver does before it is removed. Among other things, I don't > see any documentation for the skge driver similar to that for the > sk98lin

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
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

Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:42:32PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:03:40AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: 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