Re: Getting the correct asix AX88178 usb gige driver in mainline?

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:09:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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Here are the details. If somehow their driver could be integrated in
mainline by putting the relevant bits in the current driver, that would be
fantastic :)
(obviously it would have been better if they had done that themselves to
start with, no idea why they didn't).

Hi Marc,

I've taken a look at the driver you linked to and compared it to the
version that was closest at the time.

This is similar to the patch they must have had at some point. I would guess
that the answer is somewhere in there. It's quite different to the much
cleaner patch 933a27d39e "USB: asix - Add AX88178 support and many other
changes", which was merged later with a similar intention.

(...)

The patch I mentioned was merged back in 2006, for 2.6.19. Either that
patch was never complete and is missing support for your hardware, or
it broke since then. You should probably try an old kernel to see if it's
actually a regression.

Thanks for the details Arnd, I'll see if I can boot 2.6.19 on that laptop
and report back.

Marc
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