On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:20:40AM +0100, Thomas Bork wrote: > Hi @all, > > after a bug report of a user of 2.6.32.60 I searched the changes for > r8169 in newer kernel trees. > The user had a RTL8102E, which is not correctly working with the > vanilla r8169.c. > > There is a change for correctly driving rtl8102: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commitdiff;h=d24e9aafe5d5dfdf6d114b29e67f8afd5fae5ef0 > > > This change was not backported to 2.6.3x.y. Can you tell me the reason why? Possibly because staging drivers have a very low priority, and odds are, the patch didn't apply. > > This is the backported version for 2.6.32.y: > > kernel26test 2.0.3 # diff -Nurp r8169.c.orig r8169.c > --- r8169.c.orig 2012-10-07 23:41:24.000000000 +0200 > +++ r8169.c 2013-02-28 01:41:46.000000000 +0100 Please resend this in a format we can apply it in (hint, it needs to be at the root of the kernel source tree, read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for how to properly create patches.) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html