Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.10 03/27] r8169: remove detection of chip version 11 (early RTL8168b)

On 23.02.2025 01:57, Michael Pflüger wrote:

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Indeed, I ended up dropping from the wrong local branch yesterday

So it looks like the patch was kept in stable because i hit the problem
now after upgrading from kernel 6.9 to 6.13. It's a PCIe card which was
cheaply available in europe so it wouldn't surprise me if some more of
these are around and in use. So, can we keep supporting that chip and
revert the change, or do i have to get a new card?

Detection of this chip version was removed in May last year and this is
the first such report. So it doesn't seem there's a significant number
of these old cards out there. It was the first PCIe version, and it's
broken in different ways, requiring version-specific workarounds.
I'd prefer not to re-add these workarounds in mainline, also given that
cards with modern versions like RTL8168h are available new for <10€.
Alternatively you can build a custom kernel, or use r8168 vendor driver.

Regards,

Michael