new sk driver [was: nve timeout (and down) regression?]

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, JoaoBR wrote:

> On Saturday 25 March 2006 08:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, David Xu wrote:
>>> ÿÿ Saturday 25 March 2006 18:04ÿÿJoaoBR ÿÿÿÿÿÿ
>>>
>>>> It appears to be a point
>>>> the machines with problem are all SMP, UP do no show the nve timeout or
>>>> any other problem with it
>>>> alias, same with SK, on SMP the system crashes and with UP it's ok
>>
>> For sk please try the new driver Pyun is regularly postng and will
>> commit once the 5/6Rs are done.
>
> for some reason I thought it was already commited
>
> so I reused it and my sk problem is gone, since friday the machines are
> running fine again
>
> why it will be in only after the release?

I guess for several reasons:

a) more testing
b) not confuse users with problem reports from the one or the other
    during Release testing.
c) possible repo-copy to sys/dev/sk
d) ...

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