Bug#995125: linux: Realtek ethernet driver r8169 lacks support for chip chip XID 54b

2021-10-03 Thread Wright, Randy (HPE Servers Linux)
I am pleased to report that commit e6d6ca6e12049dfbff6ac8b029678d2d2c55c34f does provide the support for chip XID 54b. However, I had to apply two other patches, and temporarily revert and then re-apply a third patch to apply to the linux-source-5.10 kernel version 5.10.46-5. Attached is

Bug#995125: linux: Realtek ethernet driver r8169 lacks support for chip chip XID 54b

2021-10-02 Thread Wright, Randy (HPE Servers Linux)
> The upstream commit which appears to add the support is > https://git.kernel.org/linus/e6d6ca6e12049dfbff6ac8b029678d2d2c55c34f > Is this enough? The nominated patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/patch/?id=e6d6ca6e12049dfbff6ac8b029678d2d2c55c34f