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 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 757b6878c7ecca73a234070ac7643d1211ca55c7
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 319f8d7a502da..32ea1d902a173 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -2185,7 +2185,9 @@ static void rtl8169_get_mac_version(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
/* 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 },
