RTL8168dp is ancient anyway, and I haven't seen any trace of its early
version 27 yet. This chip versions needs quite some special handling,
therefore it would facilitate driver maintenance if support for it
could be dropped. For now just disable detection of this chip version.
If nobody complains we can remove support for it in the near future.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
index e72d8f3ae..f94965615 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c
@@ -1962,7 +1962,11 @@ static enum mac_version rtl8169_get_mac_version(u16 xid,
bool gmii)
{ 0x7c8, 0x280, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_26 },
/* 8168DP family. */
- { 0x7cf, 0x288, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27 },
+ /* It seems this early RTL8168dp version never made it to
+ * the wild. Let's see whether somebody complains, if not
+ * we'll remove support for this chip version completely.
+ * { 0x7cf, 0x288, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27 },
+ */
{ 0x7cf, 0x28a, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_28 },
{ 0x7cf, 0x28b, RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_31 },
--
2.29.2
