Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2021-11-26

[PATCH net-next 0/3] r8169: disable detection of further chip versions that didn't make it to the mass market

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From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-11-15 21:18:35
Subsystem: 8169 10/100/1000 gigabit ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Heiner Kallweit, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

There's no sign of life from further chip versions. Seems they didn't
make it to the mass market. Let's disable detection and if nobody
complains remove support a few kernel versions later.

Heiner Kallweit (3):
  r8169: disable detection of chip versions 49 and 50
  r8169: disable detection of chip version 45
  r8169: disable detection of chip version 41

 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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