Re: sky2 eth device with Gigabyte 965P-S3 motherboard

[Tom St Denis]

On 9/22/06, Tom St Denis <tomstdenis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This won't be fixed as part of 2.6.18.x?  Looking at the source for
> the latest gentoo-sources in the 2.6.17 stream I don't see ID 4364 in
> the source for sky2.c [sky2_id_table[]].  So why is it detected and
> working there but not in 2.6.18?
>
> I'll try adding the device to the table and see what happens.

Adding the line to the table works now.  [yipee, I get proper SATA and
net now woot!]

May I request that someone insert that one line to drivers/net/sky2.c
before 2.6.19?

--- sky2.old	2006-09-22 21:34:36.000000000 +0000
+++ sky2.c	2006-09-22 21:28:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4361) },
	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4362) },
	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4363) },
+	{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4364) },
	{ 0 }
};

[yeah I know not a normal patch ... I'm also not a kernel developer...]

I'm still confused on how it works in 2.6.17 without the ID?

Thanks,
Tom
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