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           Summary: Driver "benet" removed from staging, be2net merged in
                    drivers/net (different versions/PCI-IDs)
    Classification: openSUSE
           Product: openSUSE 11.2
           Version: Alpha 0
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: SuSE Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Kernel
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: AxelKoellhofer@xxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


Created an attachment (id=285317)
 --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=285317)
Patch for benet to compile with 2.6.29

User-Agent:       Opera/9.64 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; de) Presto/2.1.1

I am playing around with building driver packages from Staging (i.e. trying to
backport them to older openSUSE-versions, if possible).

In 2.6.27 (openSUSE 11.1) a driver called "benet" was included, modinfo shows
the following output:

modinfo benet
filename:      
/lib/modules/2.6.27.21-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/staging/benet/benet.ko
license:        GPL
author:         ServerEngines
description:    ServerEngines BladeEngine Network Driver Version 1.0.728

version:        1.0.728

srcversion:     E870885A441CEB9BDB3C3F8

alias:          pci:v000019A2d00000201sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

depends:
staging:        Y
vermagic:       2.6.27.21-0.1-default SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           msix:Use MSI-x interrupts (uint)
parm:           rxbuf_size:Size of buffers to hold Rx data (uint)

After installing openSUSE factory (11.2 Alpha0), I searched for new drivers in
Staging and benet was gone.

Quick search on the net gave me this result.

http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0903.2/01269.html

The driver I found in "drivers/net" was called "be2net" and gives the following
modinfo output:

filename:      
/lib/modules/2.6.29-6-default/kernel/drivers/net/benet/be2net.ko
license:        GPL
author:         ServerEngines Corporation
description:    ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps NICDriver 2.0.348

version:        2.0.348

srcversion:     2A905AA5D1F40A3C95BC9F4

alias:          pci:v000019A2d00000211sv*sd*bc*sc*i*

depends:
vermagic:       2.6.29-6-default SMP mod_unload modversions
parm:           rx_frag_size:Size of a fragment that holds rcvd data. (uint)

To me this looks like two drivers for two different devices (PCI-IDs).

I don't have the respective hardware (I'm just playing around with this Staging
stuff), but I was able to patch "benet" to compile with 2.6.29 (see
attachment).

P.S.

I also created a little patch to compile the new "be2net"-driver with openSUSE
11.1/11.0 (see second attachment), if there is any interest in merging be2net
to Staging for older kernel versions.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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