Bug#350375: gotcha

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:36:45PM +0100, Pierrot wrote:
> Hi Sirs,
> 
> I finally get it to work.
> 
> The clue was on the driver version included in the kernel from the 
> installation CD and in the 2.6.15 source from the debian archive.
> 
> I have had to patch the kernel with the version I found on syskonnect site 
> which are the same thta on Marvell's one.
> 
> I have attached both sk98lin.txt files.
> 
> That means that the version used by  kernel.org is an old one taht does not 
> support "recent" (my motherboard is one year old...) adapters/chips.
> 
> Hope this time it helps ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Pierrot
> 
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This clearly doesn't allow us to ship that version of the driver. At least it
is better that the 'don't even look at it' licence that was on the SATA
drivers from marvell.

Basically, this is a kernel issue, and the right thing to do is to file a bug
against the linux-2.6 package, and lobby for the upstream kernel to include
said fix.

Friendly,

Sven Luther