Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled sk98lin removal

[Chris Stromsoe <cbs@cts.ucla.edu>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:44:35 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > This patch contains the scheduled removal of the sk98lin driver.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > >
> > > Stephen -- ACK?
> >
> > Yes.  Existing driver is dead, if there are any ancient boards that 
> > don't work with skge, I haven't heard any complaints in at least a 
> > year. As a fallback users, can always go with vendor driver.
>
> I have a several SK-9872s that do not work reliably with skge but work 
> fine with sklin.  The SK-9872 is a dual port card.  Doing the following 
> causes a hard lock:

sorry - SK-9844, not 9872.

> modprobe bonding miimon=100 mode=active-backup
> modprobe skge
> ifup bond0
> ifdown bond0
>
> This happens with every version of skge I've tested, including whatever is in 
> 2.6.22.  /etc/network/interfaces contains:
>
> iface bond0 inet static
>        network 192.168.1.0
>        address 192.168.1.1
>        broadcast 192.168.1.255
>        netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>        up ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
>        down ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1
>
>
> lspci -vv -s 02:01
> 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-9872 Gigabit Ethernet Server 
> Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX dual link) (rev 11)
>        Subsystem: SysKonnect SK-9844 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET 
> GE-SX dual link)
>        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: 64 (5750ns min, 7750ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
>        Region 0: Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>        Region 1: I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
>        Expansion ROM at febc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: <access denied>




-Chris
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