On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
On 28.07.2024 02:52, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 982300c115d229565d7af8e8b38aa1ee7bb1f5bd ]
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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/875cdcf4-843c-420a-ad5d-417447b68572@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
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 7b9e04884575e..d2d46fe17631a 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 },
It may be the case that there are still few users out there with this ancient hw. We will know better once 6.11 is out for a few month. In this case we would have to revert this change. I don't think it's a change which should go to stable.
Sure, I'll drop it.