mark sk98lin driver for removal
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PATCH 1/1 mark sk98lin driver for removal
The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver.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 in the vendor MIB code. That code is a mess, and starting over was one of the motivations for creating the skge driver.
So rather than add more bondo to the old beater to cover the rusty bits, throw it in the dustbin.
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +7 -0
@@ -258,3 +258,10 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since Who: Jean Delvare <[email protected]> --------------------------- + +What: sk98lin network driver +When: January 2007 +Why: replaced by the skge driver +Who: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> + +---------------------------
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@@ -2677,6 +2677,10 @@ L: [email protected] W: http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Linux/Drivers/sdhci S: Maintained +SK98LIN GIGABBIT ETHERNET DRIVER +L: [email protected] +S: Obsolete + SKGE, SKY2 10/100/1000 GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVERS P: Stephen Hemminger M: [email protected]
Quoted 9 lines · 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The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver.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 in the vendor MIB code. That code is a mess, and starting over was one of the motivations for creating the skge driver.
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So rather than add more bondo to the old beater to cover the rusty bits, throw it in the dustbin.
Signed-off-by Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]
After a huge number of bug reports in Fedora 'went away' when we switched our users to using skge instead, I wholeheartedly endorse this. sk98lin is a disaster. The last time I looked the vendor out-of-tree driver had a huge delta vs mainline, and backed out numerous fixes made to it in the mainline kernel. It's a huge effort to get the 'good bits' out of that patch, and letting it die is the only sensible solution IMO.
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+SK98LIN GIGABBIT ETHERNET DRIVER
typo :-)
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
John W. Linville
Acked-byQuoted 8 lines · Dave Jones
Quoted 7 lines · 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.
So rather than add more bondo to the old beater to cover the rusty bits, throw it in the dustbin.
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Signed-off-by Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]After a huge number of bug reports in Fedora 'went away' when we switched our users to using skge instead, I wholeheartedly endorse this.
Acked-by Dave Jones <[email protected]>
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John W. Linville [email protected]
ACK, however
[jgarzik@pretzel 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