Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: deprecate support for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27

2021-01-10 Thread Heiner Kallweit
On 10.01.2021 03:17, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:24:16 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote: >> 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 maintenanc

Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169: deprecate support for RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_27

2021-01-09 Thread Jakub Kicinski
On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:24:16 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote: > 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