This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8169: remove detection of chip version 11 (early RTL8168b)
to the 5.15-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:
r8169-remove-detection-of-chip-version-11-early-rtl8.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ad6c1a89317359fbf98a03ddfc9ae71a7e153bf6
Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 27 21:20:16 2024 +0200
r8169: remove detection of chip version 11 (early RTL8168b)
[ 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@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/875cdcf4-843c-420a-ad5d-417447b68572@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 49a3cd4ce89c2..4284fd9e4e5ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -2063,7 +2063,9 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid, bool gmii)
/* 8168B family. */
{ 0x7cf, 0x380, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_12 },
{ 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 },
