Am 11.03.2013 00:05, schrieb Daniel Wagener:
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:53:42 +0100
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 10.03.2013 19:28, schrieb Daniel Wagener:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I ran into some trouble about an hour ago…
>>>
>>> My workstation has an onboard Realtek Ethernet which only works
>>> with the r8168 driver. Unfortunately, this driver is not in the
>>> kernel, but available to be compiled as a kernel module. (I guess
>>> because of som patents) That worked for quite some time, until i
>>> thought "hey, you got an hour of time, your workstation is still on
>>> 3.7.4, why don't you just upgrade it to 3.8.2?" So I did, only to
>>> find out that Linus and his friends changed the way drivers are
>>> initialized… (__devinit got unsupported for example)
>>>
>>> Of course, the guys who wrote that r8169 have not changed their
>>> code yet.
>>>
>>> tl;dr:
>>> My network is broken since 3.8.0.
>>>
>>> So for an immediate fix I am emerging 3.7.10 (since emerge
>>> --depclean deleted the Kernel source when it found the source fo
>>> 3.7.8 which got removed as soon as 3.8.2 was emerged…) to get it
>>> working again. For the long run im thinking of buying a PCI(e) card
>>> with Kernel support. Or maybe, if I find some time I will fix the
>>> driver myself.
>>>
>>> My question now is:
>>> Who should I talk to so something like this does not happen again?
>>> A certain gentoo dev, who could issue warnings on emerging kernels,
>>> something like excerpts from the changelog? Myself, because I
>>> missed what I described above? The devs of the r8169?
>>> Linus & co for breaking things?
>>> Myself bcause I forgot something else?
>>> Realtek?
>>> Or someone completely different?
>>>
>> so, you are using a superfluous external driver. Despite the fact that
>> external drivers are prone to breaking you insist on using the latest
>> kernel, instead using the latest kernel of one of the stable kernel
>> series like 3.4. To add insult to injury you remove kernels after
>> installing instead of after testing.
> well… I guess that sums it up… :(
>
I hope so. But not all is lost. You learnt a lesson, next time someone
does something like that you can act like the resident asshole and I get
a couple of minutes off. Everybody wins. Especially me.
