On 23.02.2025 01:57, Michael Pflüger wrote: >> Indeed, I ended up dropping from the wrong local branch yesterday > > So it looks like the patch was kept in stable because i hit the problem > now after upgrading from kernel 6.9 to 6.13. It's a PCIe card which was > cheaply available in europe so it wouldn't surprise me if some more of > these are around and in use. So, can we keep supporting that chip and > revert the change, or do i have to get a new card? > Detection of this chip version was removed in May last year and this is the first such report. So it doesn't seem there's a significant number of these old cards out there. It was the first PCIe version, and it's broken in different ways, requiring version-specific workarounds. I'd prefer not to re-add these workarounds in mainline, also given that cards with modern versions like RTL8168h are available new for <10€. Alternatively you can build a custom kernel, or use r8168 vendor driver. > Regards, > > Michael > >
