This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "r8169: disable detection of chip version 36" to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-r8169-disable-detection-of-chip-version-36.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 21155065d6a30fab6afe3dad66dc920880d8bb66 Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jan 8 20:37:53 2023 +0100 Revert "r8169: disable detection of chip version 36" [ Upstream commit 2ea26b4de6f42b74a5f1701de41efa6bc9f12666 ] This reverts commit 42666b2c452ce87894786aae05e3fad3cfc6cb59. This chip version seems to be very rare, but it exits in consumer devices, see linked report. Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75049473/cant-setup-a-wired-network-in-archlinux-fresh-install Fixes: 42666b2c452c ("r8169: disable detection of chip version 36") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/42e9674c-d5d0-a65a-f578-e5c74f244739@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c index a73d061d9fcb..fe8dc8e0522b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c @@ -1996,10 +1996,7 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid, bool gmii) /* 8168F family. */ { 0x7c8, 0x488, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_38 }, - /* It seems this chip version never made it to - * the wild. Let's disable detection. - * { 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 }, - */ + { 0x7cf, 0x481, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 }, { 0x7cf, 0x480, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 }, /* 8168E family. */