On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 07:51:06PM -0700, Cameron Seader wrote: > Greetings, > The upstream kernel seems to be outdated with version 1.09.9 of the > drivers/net/usb/r8152.c driver. There is newer hardware now which requires > the newer version where running with the old one becomes unstable. For > example the latest Dell Precision 5520 uses this driver. I have currently > tested the newest driver I can find which is dated 8/30/2017 at version > 2.09.0. > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=56&PFid=56&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#RTL8153 > > Attached is the driver. > > I have compiled this newer driver on Kernel 4.14.1 on openSUSE Tumbleweed > and have been successful with no issues. It certainly is a lot more stable > than the previous which caused issues coming out of sleep mode where it > would drop the speed of the NIC to 100 and set it to half duplex. > > I'm asking that we please look at updating this driver in the latest kernel. Care to submit patches to update the existing in-kernel driver to provide the support that this out-of-tree driver has? That's the only way this is going to happen :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
