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 4a009b7..98b1f3a 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 */