From: Michael Stone <mstone@mathom•us>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl•org>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:42:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060815184231.GV2900@mathom.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060815110340.2c60f842@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
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 through ethtool
Fair enough. It might be nice to mention that specifically somewhere, for
people transitioning from sk98lin (which required a special parameter in
order to use both ports).
>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 the next few days.
>> I tried testing the skge driver on one system and got this in dmesg:
>>
>> skge 0000:03:0c.0: unsupported phy type 0x0
>> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:03:0c.0 disabled
>> skge: probe of 0000:03:0c.0 failed with error -95
>>
>
>What hardware was that? Please send me an lspci -vv output.
0000:03:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Syskonnect (Schneider & Koch) SK-98xx Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (rev 12)
Subsystem: Syskonnect (Schneider & Koch) SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (5750ns min, 7750ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at dfddc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
Expansion ROM at d8000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
Mike Stone
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-15 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 13:18 [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal Michael Stone
2006-08-15 18:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-15 18:42 ` Michael Stone [this message]
2006-08-17 15:21 ` Michael Stone
2006-09-21 22:39 ` [PATCH] skge: fiber support Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-23 0:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-24 4:25 ` [PATCH] skge: fiber support (rebased) Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-26 0:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-26 15:45 ` [PATCH] skge: fiber support Michael Stone
2006-09-27 17:26 ` Michael Stone
2006-09-27 17:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-27 17:59 ` Michael Stone
2006-09-27 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-22 21:11 [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal Stephen Hemminger
2006-07-22 23:17 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-23 2:17 ` John W. Linville
2006-07-29 4:35 ` Jeff Garzik
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