Re: [RFT] Realtek 8168 ethernet support

Francois Romieu [off-list ref] :

The patch below agaisnt 2.6.17-rc6 includes the following changes:

commit 3072cc0aba3ac0c944e196a63c4154ca5746ec0b

    r8169: sync with vendor's driver
    
    - add several PCI ID for the PCI-E adapters ;
    - new identification strings ;
    - the RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_ defines have been renamed to closely match the
      out-of-tree driver. It makes the comparison less hairy ;
    - various magic ;
    - the PCI region for the device with PCI ID 0x8136 is guessed.
      Explanation: the in-kernel Linux driver is written to allow MM register
      accesses and avoid the IO tax. The relevant BAR register was found at
      base address 1 for the plain-old PCI 8169. User reported lspci show that
      it is found at base address 2 for the new Gigabit PCI-E 816{8/9}.

Despite the fact that the newer 8168 has been reported to only work with an
extra alignment (gross hack: s/NET_IP_ALIGN/8/), the serie seems otherwise
fine.

I'll submit an updated serie to correctly support the 8168.

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Ueimor