Hi I have a request to a backport to stable gs. Looks like the git-10 fixed the sky2 driver issues it would be awesome to have it on our gs. Sky2 driver could be found on macbooks. Thanks
Which issues in particular?
The new version of sky2 found in 2.6.23 fixes the problem of my Marvell NIC randomly dropping connection under load. I would be forced to rmmod && modprobe sky2 to bring the interface back to life.
Created attachment 125937 [details, diff] 2.6.22 patch Please apply this patch against 2.6.22 and see if things improve
Daniel i'm unable to test right now because i left my macbook at home but next week i'll test the patch thanks for your work.
I applied the patch to Gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r1 and sky2 still failed. What I've observed is in the transition of .22 to .23 sky2 got a version bump (1.15 to 1.16 I believe) and was marked unexperimental. Seems to be a lot of changes as well searching the git for "sky2", and I believe the changes are from July 9th and onwards. I wish I could be of more help but I know nothing of back porting and kernels. Thanks
Created attachment 126105 [details, diff] patch
There aren't many relevant changes between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc1, it's just a matter of finding the one(s) that fix your problem. Please confirm again that 2.6.23-rc1 is definitely fixed, because otherwise this is a waste of time. Assuming 2.6.23-rc1 is definitely working fine, please apply the 2nd patch I attached above in addition to the one I posted earlier, and see if it helps.
see above comments
