[PATCH net-next] r8169: remove detection of chip version 11 (early RTL8168b)
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Date: 2024-05-27 19:20:16
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
This early RTL8168b version was the first PCIe chip version, and it's quite quirky. Last sign of life is from more than 15 yrs ago. Let's remove detection of this chip version, we'll see whether anybody complains. If not, support for this chip version can be removed a few kernel versions later. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index e9f5185e4..9be254373 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c@@ -2274,7 +2274,9 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid, bool gmii) /* 8168B family. */ { 0x7c8, 0x380, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_17 }, - { 0x7c8, 0x300, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_11 }, + /* This one is very old and rare, let's see if anybody complains. + * { 0x7c8, 0x300, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_11 }, + */ /* 8101 family. */ { 0x7c8, 0x448, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_39 },
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