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sky2: disable support for 88E8056
authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:47:58 +0000 (14:47 -0700)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:01:17 +0000 (15:01 -0400)
This device is having all sorts of problems that lead to data corruption
and system instability.  It gets receive status and data out of order,
it generates descriptor and TSO errors, etc.

Until the problems are resolved, it should not be used by anyone
who cares about there system.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/sky2.c

index 4a009b7b177783f1135a9d629901b19518e17265..98b1f3acff864d1beab0efd38903e90960484c61 100644 (file)
@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ static const struct pci_device_id sky2_id_table[] = {
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4361) }, /* 88E8050 */
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4362) }, /* 88E8053 */
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4363) }, /* 88E8055 */
+#ifdef broken
+       /* This device causes data corruption problems that are not resolved */
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4364) }, /* 88E8056 */
+#endif
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4366) }, /* 88EC036 */
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4367) }, /* 88EC032 */
        { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_MARVELL, 0x4368) }, /* 88EC034 */