On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:16:36AM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
From http://www.krose.org/~krose/computing.html:
Since the sky2 driver continues to suck ass (which is a technical
description for "it hangs all the time under load, at least on my
hardware" :-) ), I've fixed the sk98lin driver to compile for
linux-2.6.23-rc1. Those who continue to have problems with sky2 can
still use 2.6.23-rc1, simply by doing the following: ... Personally,
I'd like to see sk98lin remain in the kernel proper until sky2 goes at
least 6 months without reported problems. The fact that I am not the
only one still seeing issues is a clear indication that sky2 (even with
the recent patches in 2.6.23-rc1) is not yet ready to replace sk98lin.
...
This sounds good in theory.
The practical problem with this approach is that there are always many
people who use the old driver when the new driver doesn't work for them
instead of reporting their problems with the new driver.
I have a number of SK-9844 "SK-NET GE-SX dual link" cards. skge has never
worked with the cards.
The following sequence locks up the machine completely (power cycle to get
it back) with 2.6.22.1:
fresno:~# modprobe skge
fresno:~# ip li set eth2 up
fresno:~# ip li set eth2 down
fresno:~# ip li set eth3 up
This works just fine:
fresno:~# rmmod skge
fresno:~# modprobe sk98lin RlmtMode=DualNet
fresno:~# ip li set eth2 up
fresno:~# ip li set eth2 down
fresno:~# ip li set eth3 up
fresno:~# ip li set eth3 down
eth2 and eth3 are ports off the sk-9844.
I've been reporting the problem since March. If sk98lin is removed, I
won't have networking.
-Chris
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