Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:21:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fire-1.osdl.org (fire.osdl.org [65.172.181.4]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAJ0LDAI017223 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:21:13 -0800 Received: from zqx3.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by fire-1.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iAJ0KhPE011195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:20:43 -0800 Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:23:52 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mirko Lindner , Jeff Garzik , Mirko Lindner , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Ralph Roesler Subject: Re: [PATCH] (4/25) sk98: change #define to typedef Message-Id: <20041118162352.7dda3e4c@zqx3.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20041117150133.GA8874@infradead.org> References: <419A231F.4020104@syskonnect.de> <20041117150133.GA8874@infradead.org> Organization: Open Source Development Lab X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-suse-linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.95 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 X-archive-position: 11985 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: shemminger@osdl.org Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:01:34 +0000 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Note that the kernel BSD sk driver was _not_ written by SysKonnect and > > only supports Genesis and Yukon1; linux supports Genesis (single and > > dual), Yukon1, Yukon Plus, Yukon EC, Yukon FE and Yukon2 (single and > > dual). > > They have Yukon2 support for while - unlike Linux. > > > The BSD sk driver supports substantially less functionality than > > the Linux driver. For example, there is no link failover capability in > > the sk driver; Is it even possible to do link failover with existing Open Source tools? Also the whole Remote Link Mangement (RLMT) stuff has no security so if it is used over a hostile network look out. I intrigued by the idea of of porting FreeBSD driver to Linux. But this card is already taking more time than I want to spend.