http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494232 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@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: AxelKoellhofer@web.de QAContact: qa@suse.de 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: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.