Marvell 88E8053, sky2, and netdev

[Rob Andrews]

On 01-Dec-2005 11:23.24 (GMT), Reuben Farrelly wrote:
 > The sk98lin driver in the kernel is gradually being deprecated away and my 
 > understanding is that it is likely to receive little if any maintenance 
 > going forward.  So I don't think the chances of it being re-enabled in 
 > rawhide are too good.

I gathered it had been removed from the package because of numerous
issues with it. I tend to try poking PCI IDs into some drivers just as a
"suck it and see" approach, but I certainly wouldn't suggest it would be
stable.

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rob andrews                                            rob at choralone.org