mark sk98lin driver for removal
From: | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | |
To: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | |
Subject: | [PATCH] mark sk98lin driver for removal | |
Date: | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:11:50 -0700 | |
Cc: | netdev@vger.kernel.org |
The sk98lin driver is now superseded by the skge driver.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. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.or --- skge.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ skge/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -258,3 +258,10 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- + +What: sk98lin network driver +When: January 2007 +Why: replaced by the skge driver +Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> + +--------------------------- --- skge.orig/MAINTAINERS +++ skge/MAINTAINERS @@ -2677,6 +2677,10 @@ L: sdhci-devel@list.drzeus.cx W: http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Linux/Drivers/sdhci S: Maintained +SK98LIN GIGABBIT ETHERNET DRIVER +L: netdev@vger.kernel.org +S: Obsolete + SKGE, SKY2 10/100/1000 GIGABIT ETHERNET DRIVERS P: Stephen Hemminger M: shemminger@osdl.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html