On 23.02.2025 01:57, Michael Pflüger wrote:
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